Book: Sunday. Page 5

He remembered the indifference Maslennikova, when he told him about what was happening in the prison, the rigor of the overseer, the cruelty of the convoy officer when he was not allowed on the carts and didn't pay attention to the fact that the train suffers childbirth woman. "All these people, obviously, was invincible, impermeable to the simplest feelings of compassion only because they served. They, like servants, were impermeable to the feelings of humanity, as this paved ground for rain, thought Nekhludoff, looking at paved in multicolor stones, the slope of the recess on which the rain water is not absorbed into the ground, and oozing streams. - Maybe you need to put the stones cut, but sad to see this devoid of vegetation land, which could have bread, grass, bushes, trees, as those are at the top of the recess. It's the same with people, "he thought," can be, and we need these governors, caretakers, policemen, but I hate to see people deprived of their main human qualities - love and mercy to each other.

Yeah, I thought about what all these people: the caretaker, the guards, all of these employees, mostly gentle, good people became evil only because they serve.

Became all this because, thought Nekhludoff that all these people - governors, overseers, police officer, policemen - consider that there are such provisions in which the human relationship with the person doesn't have. After all, these people - and Maslennikov, and the caretaker, and guard, all of them, if they were not governors, caretakers, officers, or twenty times I would think about whether sending people in such heat and so much, twenty times as expensive and would have stopped seeing that man weakens, gasps, brought him out of the crowd, brought him into the shade, would have given water, allowed to relax and, when the accident happened, would have showed compassion. They didn't even bothered to do it to others just because they saw before them not the people and their responsibilities towards them, and the service and its requirements which they placed above the demands of human relations. In all, thought Nekhludoff. - If you can admit that whatever is more important than the feelings of humanity, at least for one hour, and even in some one exceptional case, there is no crime that one could not do with people not considering themselves to blame.

As well as in one cookery book says cancers like to be cooked alive, he was quite convinced, and not figuratively, as that expression was understood in a cookbook, and direct thought and said that people like to be superstitious.
He belonged to the support of their religion as is the poultry farmers to fell, wherewith he feeds his chickens: carrion very unpleasant, but the chickens love it and eat it, and because they have to feed on carrion.
Of course, all these Iveron, Kazan and Smolensk - a very gross idolatry, but the people love it and believe in it, and therefore it is necessary to support these superstitions. Thought Axe, not realizing that it seemed to him that the people love only superstition because there always were and now there are such cruel people, what was he Axes, which positives, use your light not on what they should use him to help out of the darkness of ignorance to the people, but to secure it therein.

The position which was held by the Axes, by appointment of his was an internal contradiction, not to see which could only person stupid and
devoid of moral sense. Axes possessed both these negative qualities. The contradiction lies in his position, was that the appointment of the office consisted in the maintenance and protection of external means, not excluding violence, that Church which, by its own definition set by God and cannot be moved nor the gates of hell nor by any human effort. It is something divine and does have such a perservance of the divine institution supposed to uphold and defend the human institution, the head of which stood the Axes with their officials. Axes have not seen this contradiction, or did not want to see him and very seriously was concerned that some priest, pastor or sectarian did not destroy the Church, which cannot prevail against the gates of hell. Axes, like all people deprived of basic religious feelings, consciousness equality and brotherhood of all people, was quite sure that the people consists of creatures other than himself, and that the people must have that without which he very well may do. He himself deep down doesn't believe and found such a state very convenient and pleasant, but was afraid people would not come in the same state, and believed as he spoke, his sacred duty to save this nation.

I remember more then once that the gendarme officer when he interrogated me, asked me to smoke. Therefore, he knows how people like to smoke, knows, therefore, and how people like freedom, light, knows how to love the mother of children and mother. So how do they mercilessly ripped me away from anything expensive, and locked up like a wild beast? This cannot be transferred with impunity. If someone believed in God and people that love each other, then one will cease to believe it. I have since stopped believing in people and embittered, - she finished and smiled.

In his memory was the village people: women, children, the elderly, poverty and izmuchennoe that he seemed now for the first time saw, especially the smiling old man, a baby sukashi bezkarnie legs - and he involuntarily compared them with what was in the city. Passing by stalls of meat, fish and ready-made clothes, he was struck by exactly the first time I saw it - full of a huge number of such pure and fat shopkeepers, no one person in the village. These people, obviously, were firmly convinced that their efforts to deceive the people who are kind in their product, be not idle, but very useful exercise. The same was fed Kucher with huge bottoms and buttons on the back, such as porters in caps, trimmed with braid, the same maids in aprons and curls, and in particular cabs-cabs with the backs of their heads trimmed, sat, lolling, in their cabs, contemptuously and wickedly considering passing. All of these people he could not help saw now those same rural people are deprived of their land and this deprivation is driven in the city. Some of these people were able to take advantage of the urban conditions and have become same as the Lord, and rejoiced in his position while others were in the city in even worse conditions than in the village, and was even more pathetic. Such a pathetic thought Nekhludoff, those shoemakers, whom he saw working in the window of one of the basement; the same was thin, pale, dishevelled washerwomen, thin bare arms stroking in front of open Windows, from which poured soap couples. Those were two of the Dyer in aprons and walkers on her bare feet, everything from head to toe covered in paint, met Nekhludoff. In rolled-up above the elbow tanned sinewy weak hands they carried a bucket of paint and incessantly scolded. Their faces looked haggard and angry. The same faces were dusted with black faces cart-cabs, shaking on his perch. The same was with puffy ragged men and women, with children standing on street corners and asking for alms. The same faces were to be seen at the open Windows of the Inn, past which Nekhludoff had to pass. Dirty with bottles and tea utensils tables, between which, swaying, scurrying white sex, sat shouting and singing red, perspiring men with red odarennyj persons. One sat by the window with lifted brows and putting her lips, staring in front of him as if trying to remember something.

- This is the error that we used to think that the prosecutors and the judges generally are some kind of liberal persons. They were once like that, but now it is quite different. Officials, concerned only with the twentieth number. They receive their salaries and want them increased, and there their principles end. He will want someone to blame, to judge, to sentence.
- Surely there are laws that you can invoke the man for what he, along with other reads the gospel?
Not only to be exiled to places not so remote, but in prison, unless it is proved that reading the Gospels, they allowed themselves to interpret it to others not as commanded, and therefore condemned the Church's interpretation. The blasphemy against the Orthodox faith in the people and article one hundred ninety-sixth by reference to the settlement.
- It can not be.
I'm telling you. I always say the lords judgment, - the lawyer continued, - I can't do that without gratitude, to see them, because if I'm not in prison, and you, too, and we all, it is only owing to their kindness. And to bring each of us to the deprivation of special rights and the places not so remote would be an easy thing.

Since his last visit to maslennikoff, and in particular after his visit to the village, Nekhludoff not what is decided, but the whole being disgusted with his environment in which he lived still, to an environment where so carefully hidden was the suffering borne by millions of people to ensure the facilities and pleasures of a small number of that people in this environment do not see, can not see the suffering because of the cruelty and crime of his life. Nekhludoff now could not without embarrassment and reproach to himself to communicate with people in this environment. Meanwhile, in this environment attracted his habits of his former life, drew and family and friendships and, most importantly, what order to do things that now one thing concerned him: to help Maslova and all of the suffering that he wanted to help, he had to seek help and services from people that environment is not only respected, but often causing in him a resentment and contempt.

The convictions of count Ivan Mikhailovich from a young age was that, as the bird tends to feed on worms, to be clothed with feathers and down and fly through the air, and it tends to eat delicious food cooked by expensive chefs to be dressed in the very late and expensive clothes, to ride the deceased and fastest horses, and that therefore it should all be ready for him. In addition, count Ivan Mikhailovich believed that the more he will receive any kind of money from the Treasury, and the more orders, to the diamond signs of something inclusive, and the more he will see and speak with the crowned heads of both sexes, the better. Everything else in comparison with these basic tenets of count Ivan Mikhailovich considered insignificant and uninteresting. Everything else could be back absolutely. According to this belief the count Ivan Mikhailovich lived and worked in St. Petersburg during forty years and after forty years had reached the post of Minister.

He prayed, asked God to help him, to possess him and to cleanse him; and what he asked, it was already done. God that lived in him, awoke in his mind. He felt him, and therefore felt not only the freedom, fulness and joy of life, but felt all the power of righteousness. All the best what it could do he felt capable of doing.

In addition, he liked her and she became accustomed to the idea that it would be her (not she will be his, and he her), and she unconscious, but persistent cunning, whatever happens to the mentally ill, reached his goal.

The boy was accused that together with a friend broke the lock in the shed and stole the old mats in the amount of three rubles and sixty-seven cents.
It is obvious that the boy is not a good villain, and the most common - see it all - the man and what he became what is, only because it was in such conditions that create such people. Because it seems clear that, in order to avoid such boys, you should try to destroy the conditions in which the formation of such unhappy creatures.
What are we doing? We grab this one accidentally caught the boy, knowing very well that thousands of them remain uncaught, and put him in prison, in conditions of perfect idleness, or the unhealthy and pointless work, in the community the same as he, weakened and lost people, and then referenced it at public expense in a community of the most corrupt people of Moscow province, in Irkutsk.
In order to destroy those conditions in which arise such people not only do nothing but only encourage those institutions in which they are produced. These establishments are well known: factories, factories, workshops, restaurants, taverns, houses of prostitution. And not only do we not destroy these places, but, considering them necessary, we support and regulate them.

Most of the prisoners, except a few of them, clearly seeing all the hype that was made over the people of this faith, and laughed at in the shower over her, most believed that these gilded icons, candles, chalices, vestments, crosses the repetitions of incomprehensible words "sweet Jesus" and "poselilas" is the mysterious power by which you can get great convenience in this life and in the hereafter. Although most of them, having done some experiments, acquisition of facilities in this life through prayers, prayers, candles, and have not received them, their prayers have gone unfulfilled, were each firmly convinced that this failure is random and that it is an institution approved scholars and metropolitans, there is still a very important institution and which is necessary if not for this then for future life.