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Herzen's prophecy of the modern Ghenghis Khan with his telegrams is completely realized by this governor. Before the town hall of the district were the soldiery, a battalion of police with their revolvers slung round them with red cords, the persons of most importance among the peasants, and the culprits. A crowd of one thousand or more people were standing round.
Madame Stavrogin has openly refused him her graces, and every honest man, if only there is such a one in this coarse town, is persuaded that a hotbed of infidelity and social doctrines has always been concealed there. He keeps all the forbidden books, Ryliev's. 'Reflections, all. Herzen's works.... I have an approximate catalogue, in case of need." "Oh heavens!
"Repeat after me," she adjured her hearers, "the Catechism of Sergei Netschajew, but begin with Herzen's noble motto: 'Long live chaos and destruction!" "Long live chaos and destruction!" was heartily roared. The terrific catechism of the apostle Netschajew made Arthur shake with alternate woe and wrath. It was bloody-minded beyond description.
And as for this poem, they say it was written by Herzen to Shatov when he was still wandering abroad, in memory of their meeting, so they say, by way of praise and recommendation damn it all... and Shatov circulates it among the young people as much as to say, 'This was Herzen's opinion of me. "Ha ha!" cried Lembke, feeling he had got to the bottom of it at last.
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