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From: timothy l. <ass...@bu...> - 2006-05-18 10:25:16
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>adscititious smallsword</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> </head> <body> <b>A toast to you!!</b><br> <div align="center"> <IMG src="cid:a89b53d40ce1$f627a89b$53d40ce1@kjierstan" border="0"><br> <strong><font size="5" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> comisarovnety<font color="#CC0000">[dot]</font>com</font></strong><br> <br><br>---- <p>the sick man--You should try purgative medicine. Taken: worse. Try leeches. Tried them: worse. Well, then, there's nothing left but to pray to God. Tried it: worse. That's just how it is with us. I say political economy; you say--worse. I say socialism: worse. Education: worse." "But how do schools help matters?" "They give the peasant fresh wants." "Well, that's a thing I've never understood," Levin replied with heat. "In what way are schools going to help the people to improve their material position? You say schools, education, will give them fresh wants. So much the worse, since they won't be capable of satisfying them. And in what way a knowledge of addition and subtraction and the catechism is going to improve their material condition, I never could make out. The day before yesterday, I met a peasant woman in the evening with a little baby, and asked her where she was going. She said she was going to the wise woman; her boy had screaming fits, so she was taking him to be doctored. I asked, 'Why, how does the wise woman cure screaming fits?' 'She puts the child on the hen-roost and repeats some charm....' " "Well, you're saying it yourself! What's wanted to prevent her taking her child to the hen-roost to cure it of screaming fits is just..." Sviazhsky said, smiling good-humoredly. "Oh, no!" said Levin with annoyance; "that method of doctoring I merely meant as a simile for doctoring the people with schools. The people are poor and ignorant--that we see as surely as the peasant woman sees the baby is ill because it screams. But in</p> <br> </div> </body> </html> |