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Ever since, by his beloved brother's deathbed, Levin had first

glanced into the questions of life and death in the light of

these new convictions, as he called the the

period from his twentieth to his thirty-fourth year imperceptibly

replaced his childish and youthful beliefs--he had been stricken

with horror, not so e of whence, and why, and how, and what it was The

physical organization, its decay, the indestructibility of

y, evolution, were

the words which usurped the place of his old belief These words

and the ideas associated with them were very well for

intellectual purposes But for life they yielded nothing, and

Levin felt suddenly like a ar for the first time into the frost

is immediately convinced, not by reason, but by his whole nature

that he is as good as naked, and that he h he did not distinctly face it, and still

went on living as before, Levin had never lost this sense of

terror at his lack of knowledge

He vaguely felt, too, that what he called his new convictions

were not e, but that they were part of a

whole order of ideas, in which no knowledge of what he needed was

possible

At first, e, with the new joys and duties bound up with