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"Stay a minute, you sweep! You are a perfect madman. As you like

for all I care. I have no lessons, do you see, and I don't care

about that, but there's a bookseller, Heruvimov--and he takes the

place of a lesson. I would not exchange him for five lessons.

He's doing publishing of a kind, and issuing natural science

manuals and what a circulation they have! The very titles are

worth the money! You always maintained that I was a fool, but by

Jove, my boy, there are greater fools than I am! Now he is

setting up for being advanced, not that he has an inkling of

anything, but, of course, I encourage him. Here are two

signatures of the German text--in my opinion, the crudest

charlatanism; it discusses the question, 'Is woman a human

being?' And, of course, triumphantly proves that she is.