hearteningly

Updated: June 12, 2025

Was there not disclosed in them the secret of his galling spiritual pain the fact that he had failed to order his life aright, to confirm the lofty aims with which he had started his course; the fact that, always poorly equipped with experience, he had failed to attain the better and the higher state, and there to strengthen himself for the overcoming of hindrances and obstacles; the fact that, dissolving like overheated metal, his bounteous store of superior instincts had failed to take the final tempering; the fact that the tutor of his boyhood, a man in a thousand, had prematurely died, and left to Tientietnikov no one who could restore to him the moral strength shattered by vacillation and the will power weakened by want of virility no one, in short, who could cry hearteningly to his soul "Forward!" the word for which the Russian of every degree, of every class, of every occupation, of every school of thought, is for ever hungering.

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol - Dead Souls