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One fact he had found out since these questions had engrossed his

fro days at college, that

religion had outlived its day, and that it was now practically

non-existent All the people nearest to hiood in

their lives were believers The old prince, and Lvov, whoey Ivanovitch, and all the women believed,

and his wife believed as simply as he had believed in his

earliest childhood, and ninety-nine hundredths of the Russian

people, all the working people for whose life he felt the deepest

respect, believed

Another fact of which he beca many

scientific books, was that the men who shared his views had no

other construction to put on theave no

explanation of the questions which he felt he could not live

without answering, but sinored their existence and