Leo Tolstoy. Sunday (№ 245226)

What most surprised him, that was what still was not done accidentally, not by mistake, not once, and that all this was done constantly, in the course of hundreds of years, with the only difference that before it was a ragged cut noses and ears, then stamped on the rods, and now watches and movable steam and not on carts.
The argument that what troubled him, was how he said officials from the imperfections of the device of places of detention and exile and that they can be corrected by arranging a new style of prison - did not satisfy Nekhludoff, because he felt that what troubled him, was not from a more or less satisfactory devices of places of detention. He read about the improved prisons with electric bells, about executions by electricity, recommended by Cardom, and enhanced violence even more resented it.
Revolted Nekhludoff most importantly, that the courts and ministries were the people receiving a large collected people's salaries because they are coping in the books written by the same officials with the same motives that drove the actions of people that violates written laws, under the articles and these articles were sent to people somewhere in a place where they have seen them and where these people are at the mercy of cruel, hardened inspectors, guards, escort millions were dying spiritually and bodily.