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"Nonsense! There's no practicality." Razumihin flew at him.

"Practicality is a difficult thing to find; it does not drop down

from heaven. And for the last two hundred years we have been

divorced from all practical life. Ideas, if you like, are

fermenting," he said to Pyotr Petrovitch, "and desire for good

exists, though it's in a childish form, and honesty you may find,

although there are crowds of brigands. Anyway, there's no

practicality. Practicality goes well shod."