All are agreed that we live not as we ought to or as we could. The remedy of some is this: a religious fatalism and, still worse, a scientific, evolutionary one. Others comfort themselves by the gradual bettering and bettering of things by themselves: the step by step people. The third assert that everything will establish itself when things will reach their very worst (Socialism), when the Government and the rich classes will control everybody fully, i.e., the working-men, and then the power will somehow or other make a somersault not only to working-men, but to unerring disinterested self-sacrificing working-men, who will then direct all affairs without error and without sin. The fourth say that to improve the whole matter, it is possible only by the destruction of evil people, the bad ones. But there is no indication where the bad people end and where the harmless ones, if not the good ones, begin. Either they will destroy every one as bad or as in the big revolution they will catch the good ones with the bad. As soon as you begin to judge strictly, no one will remain in the right. What is to be done? But there is only one instrument: a religious change in the soul of people. And it is this change which is interfered with, by all imaginary remedies. 11) My body is nothing else than that piece of everything existing which I am able to govern. 12) The whole world is that which I sense. But what am I? It is that which acts. 13) How good it would be to write a work of art, in which there would be clearly expressed the flowing nature of man: that he, one and the same man, is now a villain, now an angel, now a wise man, now an idiot, now a strong man, now the most impotent being. 14) Every man, as all people, being imperfect in everything, is nevertheless more perfect in some one thing than in another. And these perfections, he puts over another human being as a demand, and condemns him. 15) It is impossible to serve, not “God and mammon,” but “mammon and God.” The service of mammon--every kind of vanity--is a hindrance to the service of God. Peace, solitude, even boredom, is a necessary condition to the service of God. In Moscow religiously they are the most savage of people. In Paris--they are still more savage. 16) There is a kind of English toy called _peepshow_: behind a little glass, now one thing is shown, now another. This is the way one ought to show man--_Hadji Murad_: a husband, a fanatic, etc. 17) Not long ago I experienced a feeling, not exactly a reasoning, but a feeling--that everything that is material, and I myself with my own body, is only my own imagination, is the creation of my spirit and that only my soul _exists_. It was a very joyous feeling. 18) ... does on the other hand the same thing that a false religious education does; it accustoms people to deny their reason.