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- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 251
read and heard a thousand times already; but what is really orig-
inal inall this, and is exclusively your own, to my horror, is that
you sanction bloodshed in the name of conscience, and, excuse
my saying so, with such fanaticism. . . . That, I take it, is the
point of your article. But that sanction of bloodshed by con-
science isto my mind . . . more terrible than the official, legal
sanction of bloodshed. . . ."
"You are quite right, it is more terrible," Porfiry agreed.
"Yes, you must have exaggerated! There is some mistake, I
shall read it. You can't think that! I shall read it."
"All that is not in the article, there's only a hint of it," saidRaskolnikov.
"Yes, yes." Porfiry couldn't sit still. "Your attitude to crime
is pretty clear to me now, but . . . excuse me for my imper-
tinence (Iam really ashamed to be worrying you like this) , you
see, you've removed my anxiety as to the two grades' getting
mixed, but . . . there are various practical possibilities that make
me uneasy! What if some man or youth imagines that he is a
Lycurgus or Mahomet — a future one of course — and suppose
he begins to remove all obstacles. . . . He has some great enter-
prise before him and needs money for it . . . and tries to get it
... do you see?"
Zametov gave a sudden guflfaw in his corner. Raskolnikov did
not even raise his eyes to him.
"I must admit," he went on calmly, "that such cases certainly
must arise. The vain and foolish are particularly apt to fall
into that snare; young people especially."
"Yes, you see. Well then?"
"What then?" Raskolnikov smiled in reply; "that's not my
fault. So it is and so it always will be. He said just now (he
nodded at Razumihin) that I sanction bloodshed. Society is too
well protected by prisons, banishment, criminal investigators,
penal servitude. There's no need to be uneasy. You have but
to catch the thief."
"And what if we do catch him?"
"Then he gets what he deserves."
"You are certainly logical. But what of his conscience?"
"Why do you care about that?"
"Simply from humanity."
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