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and if so, where?

Sergey Ivanovitch met his brother with the smile of chilly

friendliness he always had for everyone, and introducing him to

the professor, went on with the conversation.

A little man in spectacles, with a narrow forehead, tore himself

from the discussion for an instant to greet Levin, and then went

on talking without paying any further attention to him. Levin sat

down to wait till the professor should go, but he soon began to

get interested in the subject under discussion.

Levin had come across the magazine articles about which they were

disputing, and had read them, interested in them as a development

of the first principles of science, familiar to him as a natural

science student at the university. But he had never connected

these scientific deductions as to the origin of man as an animal,

as to reflex action, biology, and sociology, with those questions

as to the meaning of life and death to himself, which had of late

been more and more often in his mind.