{"id":"01KFE0CV4E8CDPN815JVB2ZZD1","cid":"bafkreiha4uy7g4b3xtfvhvzir63yy7z774aqr6sfpuvce7jqthy2izmljy","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreib4zi7pa7xhhs463yaymn4l37mu7qttouyjudpclqqghzjzezn2jy","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0150.jpg","key":"pdf-page-1768922966658-bgj88w86cmf","label":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0150.jpg","page_number":150,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":205976,"text":"142 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT\n\"That's all true,\" Zossimov hastened to interpose.\n\"Isn't it so?\" Pyotr Petrovitch went on, glancing affably at\nZossimov. \"You must admit,\" he went on, addressing Razumi-\nhin with a shade of triumph and superciliousness — he almost\nadded \"young man\" — \"that there is an advance, or, as they\nsay now, progress in the name of science and economic\ntruth . . .\"\n\"A commonplace.\"\n\"No, not a commonplace! Hitherto, for instance, if I were\ntold, 'love thy neighbour,' what came of it?\" Pyotr Petrovitch\nwent on, perhaps with excessive haste. \"It came to my tearing\nmy coat in half to share with my neighbour and we both were\nleft half naked. As a Russian proverb has it, 'catch several\nhares and you won't catch one.' Science now tells us, love your-\nself before all men, for everything in the world rests on self-\ninterest. You love yourself and manage your own affairs prop-\nerly and yovu: coat remains whole. Economic truth adds that\nthe better private affairs are organised in society — the more\nwhole coats, so to say — the firmer are its foundations and the\njetter is the common welfare organised too. Therefore, in ac-\nquiring wealth solely and exclusively for myself, I am acquiring\nso to speak, for all, and helping to bring to pass my neighbour's\ngetting a little more than a torn coat; and that not from private,\npersonal liberality, but as a consequence of the general advance.\nThe idea is simple, but unhappily it has been a long time reach-\ning us, being hindered by idealism and sentimentality. And yet\nit would seem to want very little wit to perceive it . . .\"\n\"Excuse me, I've very little wit myself,\" Razumihin cut in\nsharply, \"and so let us drop it. I began this discussion with an\nobject, but I've grown so sick during the last three years of this\nchattering to amuse oneself, of this incessant flow of common-\nplaces, always the same, that, by Jove, I blush even when other\npeople talk like that. You are in a hurry, no doubt, to exhibit\nyour acquirements; and I don't blame you, that's quite pardon-\nable. Ionly wanted to find out what sort of man you are, for\nso many imscrupuious people have got hold of the progressive\ncause of late and have so distorted in their own interests every-\nthing they touched, that the whole cause has been dragged in\nthe mire. That's enough!\"","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-20T15:29:26.658Z","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":"2026-01-20T15:29:27.345Z","ts":"2026-01-20T15:29:28.512Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFCZWTBNJH4WFMS8354919KY"}}