{"id":"01KFE0BEABPM7PVDBFYZW7WW50","cid":"bafkreigp6a34ousqmszifxkw4aodfamf223fzndpdsz47idvavpgf7lehm","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreigztwzzbcakcyuqa2u367qvulm5o7ncwxrqnkpv34vqdm5bn7qglq","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0077.jpg","key":"pdf-page-1768922919388-bxk7e9oqwvf","label":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0077.jpg","page_number":77,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":221057,"text":"CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 69\nwith one question; why almost all crimes are so badly concealed\nand so easily detected, and why almost all criminals leave such\nobvious traces? He had come gradually to many different and\ncurious conclusions, and in his opinion the chief reason lay not\nso much in the material impossibility of concealing the crime,\nas in the criminal himself. Almost every criminal is subject to\na failure of will and reasoning power by a childish and phenome-\"\nnal heedlessness, at the very instant when prudence and caution\nare most essential. It was his conviction that this eclipse of\nreason and failure of will power attacked a man like a disease>\ndeveloped gradually and reached its highest point just before\nthe perpetration of the crime, continued with equal violence\nat the moment of the crime and for longer or shorter time after,\naccording to the individual case, and then passed off like any\nother disease. The question whether the disease gives rise to\nthe crime, or whether the crime from its own peculiar nature is\nalways accompanied by something of the nature of disease, he\ndid not yet feel able to decide.\nWhen he reached these conclusions, he decided that in his\nown case there could not be such a morbid reaction, that his\nreason and will would remain unimpaired at the time of carry-\ning out his design, for the simple reason that his design was \"not\na crime. ...\" We will omit all the process by means of which\nhe arrived at this last conclusion; we have run too far ahead\nalready. . . . We may add only that the practical, purely ma-\nterial difficulties of the afiFair occupied a secondary position in\nhis mind. \"One has but to keep all one's will power and reason\nto deal with them, and they will all be overcome at the time\nwhen once one has familiarised oneself with the minutest details\nof the business. . . .\" But this preparation had never been begun.\nHis final decisions were what he came to trust least, and when\nthe hour struck, it all came to pass quite diflFerently, as it were\naccidentally and unexpectedly.\nOne trifling circumstance upset his calculations, before he had\neven left the staircase. When he reached the landlady's kitchen,\nthe door of which was open as usual, he glanced cautiously in\nto sec whether, Nastasya's absence, the landlady herself was\nthere, or if not, whether the door to her own room was closed, so\nthat she might not peep out when he went in for the axe. But\nwhat was his amazement when he suddenly saw that Nastasya","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-20T15:28:39.388Z","text_extracted_by":"pdf-processor","text_has_content":true,"text_source":"born_digital","uploaded":true},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KFCZZ05FKVDDMJJV3YE9Q4WH","peer_label":"crimepunishment00dostiala.pdf","peer_type":"file","predicate":"derived_from"},{"peer":"01KESYJX0Z6XE0HWTS5N3SDG0B","peer_label":"The Classics","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-20T15:28:41.580Z","ts":"2026-01-20T15:28:42.771Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFCZWTBNJH4WFMS8354919KY"}}