A Russian Wild Flower Or the Story of a Woman in Search of a Life
A Russian Wild Flower Or the Story of a Woman in Search of a Life
E a Brayley Edward Arthur Brayley Hodgetts
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He worked his way through Spin- oza, Kant, Hegel and Swedenborg, and returned to his original simplicity of mind. He saw that the salvation of mankind was not to be worked out by theorising, and resolved honestly and simply to do his duty. He therefore returned home to set about minding his own business with a will. He decided that he would do more good by leading a life of usefulness, than by trying to understand matters that were too high for him. So he returned to Moscow, a simple-minded, Go...d-fearing Russian, resolved to do his duty, and to lead the life of a good and useful citizen. But a good citizen should be a patriarch and rear up for his country healthy children, to be- come honest men and women, and good subjects. Yet Platon did not marry. But he worked hard at his business and studied in his library, where Shakespeare and Goethe, Byron and Moliere, found a place with Stuart Mill and Herbert Spencer, and many a book of philosophy and science. But if Platon took a more serious view of life, it is to be feared that he did not practise the austerity which he preached to himself For his was a large-hearted, expansive Russian 248 A RUSSIAN WILD FLOWER nature, and he loved to entertain his friends, and was genial and hospitable.
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