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The idea is simple, but unhappily it has been a long time

reaching us, being hindered by idealism and sentimentality. And

yet it would seem to want very little wit to perceive it..."

"Excuse me, I've very little wit myself," Razumihin cut in

sharply, "and so let us drop it. I began this discussion with an

object, but I've grown so sick during the last three years of

this chattering to amuse oneself, of this incessant flow of

commonplaces, always the same, that, by Jove, I blush even when

other people talk like that. You are in a hurry, no doubt, to

exhibit your acquirements; and I don't blame you, that's quite

pardonable. I only wanted to find out what sort of man you are,

for so many unscrupulous people have got hold of the progressive

cause of late and have so distorted in their own interests

everything they touched, that the whole cause has been dragged in

the mire. That's enough!"