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64 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 1892
賵爻毓賵丕 賲賳 賵卮 丕賱毓賯賱丕亍
丿賳賷丕 賵 丿丕賷乇丞 禺賱賮 禺賱丕賮
賵 丕賱賲噩丕賳賷賳 賮賷賴丕 丕氐賳丕賮
賰賱賵 賱丕夭賲锘� 賱賴 賯賲賷氐 亘賰鬲丕賮
賲賳 丕賵胤賶 賲丕 賮賷賴賲 賱賱賴丕賷锘�
賵 爻賱賲 賱賳丕 亘賯賶 毓 丕賱鬲乇賵賲丕賶
鈥淎nd what is that fantastic 鈥榯rue happiness鈥�? There鈥檚 no answer, of course. We are kept here behind barred windows, tortured, left to rot; but that is very good and reasonable, because there is no difference at all between this ward and a warm, snug study. A convenient philosophy. You can do nothing, and your conscience is clear, and you feel you are wise鈥� No, sir, it is not philosophy, it鈥檚 not thinking, it鈥檚 not breadth of vision, but laziness, fakirism, drowsy stupefaction.鈥�
鈥淭hese disorderly proceedings were perfectly well known in the town, and were even exaggerated, but people took them calmly; some justified them on the ground that there were only peasants and working men in the hospital, who could not be dissatisfied, since they were much worse off at home than in the hospital [鈥鈥�![]()
鈥淲hen Andrey Yefimitch was deceived or flattered, or accounts he knew to be cooked were brought him to sign, he would turn as red as a crab and feel guilty, but yet he would sign the accounts. When the patients complained to him of being hungry or of the roughness of the nurses, he would be confused and mutter guiltily: 鈥淰ery well, very well, I will go into it later 鈥� Most likely there is some misunderstanding鈥︹€�
鈥淸鈥 And, indeed, why hinder people dying if death is the normal and legitimate end of everyone? What is gained if some shop-keeper or clerk lives an extra five or ten years? If the aim of medicine is by drugs to alleviate suffering, the question forces itself on one: why alleviate it? In the first place, they say that suffering leads man to perfection; and in the second, if mankind really learns to alleviate its sufferings with pills and drops, it will completely abandon religion and philosophy, in which it has hitherto found not merely protection from all sorts of trouble, but even happiness. Pushkin suffered terrible agonies before his death, poor Heine lay paralyzed for several years; why, then, should not some Andrey Yefimitch or Matryona Savishna be ill, since their lives had nothing of importance in them, and would have been entirely empty and like the life of an amoeba except for suffering?鈥�
" 廿賳 噩賵賴乇 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳 賰賱賴 賷賯賵賲 毓賱賶 兀丨丕爻賷爻 丕賱噩賵毓 賵丕賱亘乇丿 賵丕賱廿賴丕賳丕鬲 賵丕賱禺爻丕卅乇 賵丕賱禺賵賮 丕賱賴丕賲賱鬲賷 賲賳 丕賱賲賵鬲. 丕賱丨賷丕丞 賰賱賴丕 賮賷 賴匕賴 丕賱兀丨丕爻賷爻. 賷賲賰賳賰 兀賳 鬲卮賯賶 亘丕賱丨賷丕丞 賵鬲賲賯鬲賴丕貙 賵賱賰賳 賱丕 鬲丨鬲賯乇賴丕 "