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"Impossible, as it seems to me.... For the three thousand square

miles of our district, what with our thaws, and the storms, and

the work in the fields, I don't see how it is possible to provide

medical aid all over. And besides, I don't believe in medicine."

"Oh, well, that's unfair ... I can quote to you thousands of

instances.... But the schools, anyway."

"Why have schools?"

"What do you mean? Can there be two opinions of the advantage of

education? If it's a good thing for you, it's a good thing for

everyone."

Konstantin Levin felt himself morally pinned against a wall, and

so he got hot, and unconsciously blurted out the chief cause of

his indifference to public business.