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Nekhludoff, with his passionate nature, gave hihly

to the neay of life so approved of by all those around, and he

entirely stifled the inner voice which dean after he hest point when he entered the areneral depraves men It places them in

conditions of complete idleness, ie, absence of all useful

work; frees them of their common human duties, which it replaces

by i them on the one hand

absolute power over other men, also puts theher rank than the influence of s, its per influence of riches and

nearness to and intercourse with members of the Iiment of the Guards in which all

the officers are rich and of good fa

influence creates in the men who succumb to it a perfect mania of

selfishness And this mania of selfishness attacked Nekhludoff

fro in the way

his companions lived He had no occupation whatever except to

dress in a uniform, splendidly made and well brushed by other

people, and, with arms also made and cleaned and handed to him by

others, ride to reviews on a fine horse which had been bred,