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Sergey Ivanovitch would have said so, but Pestsov

interrupted hi the

justice of this view Sergey Ivanovitch waited serenely to

speak, obviously with a convincing reply ready

"But," said Sergey Ivanovitch, s

Karenin, "One es of classical and scientific studies is a difficult

task, and the question which form of education was to be

preferred would not have been so quickly and conclusively decided

if there had not been in favor of classical education, as you

expressed it just now, its moral--disons le mot--anti-nihilist

influence"

"Undoubtedly"

"If it had not been for the distinctive property of

anti-nihilistic influence on the side of classical studies, we

should have considered the subject ey Ivanovitch with a subtle

siven elbow-room to both tendencies But

noe know that these little pills of classical learning possess

the medicinal property of anti-nihilism, and we boldly prescribe

them to our patients But what if they had no such ey Ivanovitch's little pills, everyone laughed; Turovtsin