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dissent from his opinions. But when you have known this
greatest son of Russia personally, and seen this nobly-born
magnate and great genius daily devoting all the powers of his
mind, all the strength of his indomitable will, all the warmth
of his large and generous heart, to help and uplift the
downtrodden, oppressed, and degraded peasants, and have seen, on
the other hand, the motley crowd of his critics and
calumniators, fops, mammon-worshippers, courtiers, and priests, with
borrowed wisdom, drawing-room philosophy, fossil dogmas,,
cut and polished, and a Pharisaism that will almost put to the
blush that of Judaic origin, it is as if a swarm of noxious
insects were buzzing round a giant ditcher, toiling in the
sweat of his brow to drain a stinking and poisonous marsh,
and were raging over his attempt to destroy their paradise
in which they have grown fat, attacking his perspiring
body, and seeking some open wound received during his noble
toil, in which to instil their corrosive poison, and fatten
themselves on his substance.
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