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- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 463
material and superior persons, that is persons to whom the law
does not apply owing to their superiority, who make laws for the
rest of mankind, the material, that is. It's all right as a theory,
tine theorie comme une autre. Napoleon attracted him tremen-
dously, that is, what affected him was that a great many men
of genius have not hesitated at wrongdoing, but have over-
stepped the law without thinking about it. He seems to have
fancied that he was a genius too — that is, he was convinced
of it for a time. He has suffered a great deal and is still suffering
from the idea that he could make a theory, but was incapable
of boldly overstepping the law, and so he is not a man of genius.
And that's humiliating for a young man of any pride, in our
day especially. . . ."
"But remorse? You deny him any moral feeling then? Is
he like that?"
"Ah, Avdotya Romanovna, everything is in a muddle now;
not that it was ever in very good order. Russians in general
are broad in their ideas, Avdotya Romanovna, broad like their
land and exceedingly disposed to the fantastic, the chaotic. But
it's a misfortune to be broad without a special genius. Do you
remember what a lot of talk we had together on this subject,
sitting in the evenings on the terrace after supper. Why, you
used to reproach me with breadth! Who knows, perhaps we
were talking at the very time when he was lying here thinking
over his plan. There are no sacred traditions amongst us, espe-
cially inthe educated class, Avdotya Romanovna. At the best
some one will make them up somehow for himself out of books
or from some old chronicle. But those are for the most part the
learned and all old fogeys, so that it would be almost ill-bred
in a man of society. You know my opinions in general, though.
I never blame any one. I do nothing at all, I persevere in that.
But we've talked of this more than once before. I was so happy
indeed as to interest you in my opinions. . . . You are very pale,
Avdotya Romanovna."
"I know his theory. I read that article of his about men to
whom all is p>ermited. Razumihin brought it to me."
"Mr. Razumihin? Your brother's article? In a magazine?
Is there such an article? I didn't know. It must be interesting.
But where are you going, Avdotya Romanovna?"
"I want to see Sofya Semyonovna," Dounia articulated
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