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"At one time," Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not
willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, "at one
time a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conception
of religion, law, and morality, who reached freethought only after
conflict and difficulty. But now a new type of born freethinkers has
appeared, who grow up without so much as hearing that there used to be
laws of morality, or religion, that authorities existed. They grow up in
ideas of negation in everything-- in other words, utter savages."
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy, Pt.5 Ch.9 |