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"Come, you'd better let philosophy alone," he said. "The chief

problem of the philosophy of all ages consists just in finding

the indispensable connection which exists between individual and

social interests. But that's not to the point; what is to the

point is a correction I must make in your comparison. The birches

are not simply stuck in, but some are sown and some are planted,

and one must deal carefully with them. It's only those peoples

that have an intuitive sense of what's of importance and

significance in their institutions, and know how to value them,

that have a future before them-it's only those peoples that one

can truly call historical."

And Sergey Ivanovitch carried the subject into the regions of

philosophical history where Konstantin Levin could not follow

him, and showed him all the incorrectness of his view.