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it, had cohts But of late,

while he was staying in Moscow after his wife's confine to do, the question that clamored for solution had more

and more often, more and more insistently, haunted Levin's mind

The question was summed up for hiives to the problems of my life, what

answers do I accept?" And in the whole arsenal of his

convictions, so far fro any satisfactory answers, he was

utterly unable to find anything at all like an answer

He was in the position of afood in toy shops and

tool shops

Instinctively, unconsciously, with every book, with every

conversation, with every ht on these questions and their solution

What puzzled and distracted hie and circle had, like hied

their old beliefs for the sa to lament in this, and were perfectly satisfied and

serene So that, apart from the principal question, Levin was

tortured by other questions too Were these people sincere? he

asked hi a part? or was it that they

understood the answers science gave to these problems in some

different, clearer sense than he did? And he assiduously studied

both these men's opinions and the books which treated of these

scientific explanations