Page 20 (1/2)

These doubts fretted and harassed hier

froht,

and the ht, the further he felt

fro

Of late in Moscow and in the country, since he had become

convinced that he would find no solution in the hly Plato, Spinoza, Kant, Schelling,

Hegel, and Schopenhauer, the philosophers who gave a

non-materialistic explanation of life

Their ideas see or was

hiuments to refute other theories, especially

those of the ht for hi always

happened As long as he followed the fixed definition of obscure

words such as _spirit, will, freedoo into the snare of words the philosophers set for hi But he had only to forget the

artificial train of reasoning, and to turn fro in accordance with the

fixed definitions, and all this artificial edifice fell to pieces

at once like a house of cards, and it became clear that the

edifice had been built up out of those transposed words, apart

fro in lifeSchopenhauer, he put in place of his will

the word _love_, and for a couple of days this new philosophy