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"Well, brother, if you are really serious... You are right, of

course, in saying that it's not new, that it's like what we've

read and heard a thousand times already; but what is really

original in all this, and is exclusively your own, to my horror,

is that you sanction bloodshed in the name of conscience, and,

excuse my saying so, with such fanaticism.... That, I take it, is

the point of your article. But that sanction of bloodshed by

conscience is to my mind... more terrible than the official,

legal sanction of bloodshed...."

"You are quite right, it is more terrible," Porfiry agreed.

"Yes, you must have exaggerated! There is some mistake, I shall

read it. You can't think that! I shall read it."

"All that is not in the article, there's only a hint of it," said

Raskolnikov.