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Stepan Arkadyevitch took in and read a liberal paper, not an

extreme one, but one advocating the views held by the majority.

And in spite of the fact that science, art, and politics had no

special interest for him, he firmly held those views on all these

subjects which were held by the majority and by his paper, and he

only changed them when the majority changed them-or, more

strictly speaking, he did not change them, but they imperceptibly

changed of themselves within him.