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- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 249
**And . . . and do you believe in God? Excuse my curiosity."
"I do," repeated Raskolnikov, raising his eyes to Porfiry.
"And ... do you believe in Lazarus' rising from the dead?"
"I ... I do. Why do you ask all this?"
"You believe it literally?"
"Literally."
"You don't say so. ... I asked from curiosity. Excuse me.
But let us go back to the question; they are not always executed.
Some, on the contrary . . ."
"Triumph in their lifetime? Oh, yes, some attain their ends
in this life, and then . . ."
"They begin executing other people?"
"If it's necessary; indeed, for the most part they do. Your
remark is very witty."
"Thank you. But tell me this: how do you distinguish those
extraordinary people from the ordinary ones? Are there signs
at their birth? I feel there ought to be more exactitude, more
external definition. Excuse the natural anxiety of a practical
law-abiding citizen, but couldn't they adopt a special uniform,
for instance, couldn't they wear something, be branded in some
way? For you know if confusion arises and a member of one
category imagines that he belongs to the other, begins to 'elimi-
nate obstacles' as you so happily expressed it, then . . ."
"Oh, that very often happens! That remark is wittier than
the other."
"Thank you."
"No reason to; but take note that the mistake can only arise
in the first category, that is among the ordinary people (as I
perhaps unfortunately called them). In spite of their predispo-
sition toobedience very many of them, through a playfulness of
nature, sometimes vouchsafed even to the cow, like to imagine
themselves advanced people, 'destroyers,* and to push themselves
into the 'new movement,' and this quite sincerely. Meanwhile
the really new people are very often unobserved by them, or even
despised as reactionaries of grovelling tendencies. But I don't
think there is any considerable danger her», and you really need
not be uneasy for they never go very far. Of course, they might
have a thrashing sometimes for letting their fancy run away
with them and to teach them their place, but no more; in fact,
even this isn't necessary as they castigate themselves, for they
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