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Sergey Ivanovitch, being practiced in argument, did not reply,

but at once turned the conversation to another aspect of the

subject

"Oh, if you want to learn the spirit of the people by

arithmetical computation, of course it's very difficult to arrive

at it And voting has not been introduced a us and cannot be

introduced, for it does not express the will of the people; but

there are other ways of reaching that It is felt in the air, it

is felt by the heart I won't speak of those deep currents which

are astir in the still ocean of the people, and which are evident

to every unprejudiced man; let us look at society in the narrow

sense All the most diverse sections of the educated public,

hostile before, are ed in one Every division is at an end,

all the public organs say the sahty torrent that has overtaken the

them in one direction"

"Yes, all the newspapers do say the sa," said the prince

"That's true But so it is the sas