Leo Tolstoy. Sunday (№ 245219)

The fact that during those three months saw Nekhludoff, seemed to him the following view: living in the will of the people through the court and the administration were selected the most nervous, hot, excitable, gifted and strong and less than others, cunning and cautious people, and these people, no more guilty or dangerous to society than those who remained in the wild in the first, locked in prison, steps, prison, where they kept for months and years in complete idleness, material security, and the removal from nature, family, work, that is, out of all of the terms natural and moral life of man. This is the first. Secondly, these people in these institutions were subjected to any kind of unnecessary humiliation - chains, shaved heads, shameful clothing-that is, deprived of the main engine the good life of weak people care about the opinion of human, the shame, the consciousness of human dignity. Thirdly, being exposed to constant danger of life - not to mention the exceptional cases of sunstroke, drowning, fires, from continuing the detention of infectious disease, exhaustion, beatings, these people were constantly in that position where with a good, moral person out of a sense of self-preservation makes and excuse for others to commit the most terrible cruelty acts. Fourthly, these people were forcibly joined with an exceptionally depraved life (and particularly of these same institutions), the Libertines, murderers and villains who have acted as leaven on the dough at all still not quite used corrupt means people. And fifthly, finally, to all the people subjected to these influences, was inspired in the most compelling way, through all kinds of inhuman acts on themselves through the torture of children, women, the elderly, whipping, cross-section, with rods, with whips, wydawania bonuses for those who will present, dead or alive, the fleeing fugitive, the separation of husbands from wives and connections of cohabitation with foreign wives of other men, to kill, hanging was inspired in the most convincing way, that all sorts of violence, cruelty, atrocities are not only not prohibited, but permitted by the government when it is advantageous for him, but because the more is allowed to those who are in captivity, poverty and disasters.