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"It is the same thing, my dear monsieur. A traitor, a wretched traitor," continued Rouletabille. "A poisoner," replied the voice. "A vulgar poisoner! Is that not so? But, tell me how a vulgar poisoner who, under cover of Nihilism, worked for his own petty ends, worked for himself and betrayed you all!" Now Rouletabille's voice rose like a fanfare.
As in a night, lo! on every lip was the dread word that was destined to be blazoned in bloody letters at the head of the next and grimmest chapter of all Russian history: Nihilism. Indeed, indeed, had these young men and women found their little knowledge a deeply dangerous thing!
"I wonder if you would seriously consider one of the greatest achievements that remains undone in Europe to-day," he added, meditatively. "The obstacle to which you just now referred?" I asked. "Yes." "What is it?" "Nihilism." "Hell!" I replied with emphasis. But he took me literally, and not even the suggestion of a smile showed in his face as he replied: "That is the fitting word, Dan.
"Like the first flakes of snow, swiftly whirling, crossing and recrossing in the still mild air of autumn, words began flying, tumbling, jostling against one another in the heated atmosphere of Golushkin's dining-room words of all sorts progress, government, literature; the taxation question, the church question, the Roman question, the law-court question; classicism, realism, nihilism, communism; international, clerical, liberal, capital; administration, organisation, association, and even crystallisation!
Of course, on this theory, there is no knowledge of God, just as there can be no knowledge of Nature, and no knowledge of our fellow-men, as distinct objective realities; it is a system of pure Idealism, which, if consistently followed out, must terminate in utter skepticism in regard to many of the most familiar objects of human knowledge; or, rather, in the hands of a thoroughly consequent reasoner, it must issue, as Jacobi endeavored to show, in absolute Nihilism; since we can have no better reason for believing in the existence of Self than we have for believing in the reality of an external world, and the coexistence of our fellow-men.
"I have completed an organization of men, Zara," I went on, calmly, and in a tone which I endeavored to render as monotonous as possible, "that has for its purpose the undoing of nihilism, as it is now practiced. That body of men extends, in its ramifications, throughout St. Petersburg, and even to other cities of Russia.
Kathinka remained unmolested for some time, not because Loris had ceased to admire her, but because the young Count was condemned to a twelve-months' absence from Kief. This unsuspected stroke of good fortune for the girl happened in this wise: Towards the end of the year 1879, it became very evident that Nihilism was spreading to an alarming extent in the army.
His smiling optimism, his incessant activity, his perpetual business in helping others, were the mask of a profound nihilism, a deadly despondency which dared not see itself face to face. Olivier was not taken in by it, and used to say to Christophe: "At heart he believes in nothing."
Bazarof, the nihilist, for instance, reveals to us the motives and influences that have made nihilism, so that we feel that nothing essential on that score remains to be learnt. The ability to recognize and select types is a test of a novelist's talent and experience.
Nihilism, being based on the absence, real or supposed, of any political institutions worth preserving in Russia, cannot spread to the discontented populations of other countries. Even German socialism cannot borrow weapons or resources from a nation which has no large proletariat and whose industries are still in their infancy.
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