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- 246 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
was amalgamated with the Periodical, and so your article ap-
peared two months ago in the latter. Didn't you know?"Raskolnikov had not known.
"Why, you might get some money out of them for the article!
WTiat a strange person you are! You lead such a solitary life
that you know nothing of matters that concern you directly.
It's a fact, I assure you."
"Bravo, Rodya! I knew nothing about it either!" cried
Razumihin. "I'll run to-day to the reading-room and ask for
the number. Two months ago? What was the date? It doesn't
matter though, I will find it. Think of not telling us!"
"How did you find out that the article was mine? It's only
signed with an initial."
"I only learnt it by chance, the other day. Through the
editor; I know him. ... I was very much interested."
"It analysed, if I remember, the psychology of a criminal
before and after the crime."
"Yes, and you maintained that the perpetration of a crime
is always accompanied by illness. Very, very original, but . . .
it was not that part of your article that interested me so much,
but an idea at the end of the article which I regret to say you
merely suggested without working it out clearly. There is, if
you recollect, a suggestion that there are certain persons who
can . . . that is, not precisely are able to, but have a perfect right
to commit breaches of morality and crimes, and that the law is
not for them."
Raskolnikov smiled at the exaggerated and intentional dis-
tortion ofhis Idea.
"What? What do you mean? A right to crime? But not be-
cause of the Influence of environment?" Razumihin inquiredwith some alarm even.
"No, not exactly because of it," answered Porfiry. "In his
article all men are divided into 'ordinary' and 'extraordinary.'
Ordinary men have to live in submission, have no right to
transgress the law, because, don't you see, they are ordinary.
But extraordinary men have a right to commit any crime and
to transgress the law In any way, just because they are extraor-
dinary. That was your idea. If I am not mistaken?"
"What do you mean? That can't be right?" Razumihin
muttered in bewilderment.
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