{"id":"01KFE0HE6ZQS31WYPE72HFFDG3","cid":"bafkreigia3obdlpopkicnw7ysolc7ztibnyuygosxsmwfugb3o2xpfgzg4","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreifmqgxer5uc5d5wt2e6ngfkktmv5mgoyszcgltprb3jyyvd6ntfra","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0258.jpg","key":"pdf-page-1768923112742-amryry7ssn","label":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0258.jpg","page_number":258,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":210068,"text":"250 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT\nare very conscientious: some perform this service for one an-\nother and other chastise themselves with their own hands. . . .\nThey will impose various public acts of penitence upon them-\nselves with a beautiful and edifying effect; in fact you've noth-\ning to be uneasy about. . . . It's a law of nature.\"\n\"Well, you have certainly set my mind more at rest on that\nscore; but there's another thing worries me. Tell me, please, are\nthere many people who have the right to kill others, these\nextraordinary people? I am ready to bow down to them, of\ncourse, but you must admit it's alarming if there are a great\nmany of them, eh?\"\n\"Oh, you needn't worry about that either,\" Raskolnikov\nwent on in the same tone. \"People with new ideas, people with\nthe faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely\nfew in number, extraordinarily so in fact. One thing only is\nclear, that the appearance of all these grades and subdivisions\nof men must follow with unfailing regularity some law of na-\nture. That law, of course, is unknown at present, but I am con-\nvinced that it exists, and one day may become known. The vast\nmass of mankind is mere material, and only exists in order by\nsome great effort, by some mysterious process, by means of some\ncrossing of races and stocks, to bring into the world at last per-\nhaps one man out of a thousand with a spark of independence.\nOne in ten thousand perhaps — I speak roughly, approximately\n— is born with some independence, and with still greater inde-\npendence one in a hundred thousand. The man of genius is one of\nmillions, and the great geniuses, the crown of humanity, appear\non earth perhaps one in many thousand millions. In fact I have\nnot peeped into the retort in which all this takes place. But there\ncertainly is and must be a definite law, it cannot be a matter of\nchance.\"\n\"Why, are you both joking?\" Razumihin cried at last.\n\"There you sit, making fun of one another. Are you serious,\nRodya?\"Raskolnikov raised his pale and almost mournful face and\nmade no reply. And the unconcealed, persistent, nervous, and\ndiscourteous sarcasm of Porfiry seemed strange to Razumihin\nbeside that quiet and mournful face.\n\"Well, brother, if you are really serious . . . You are right,\nof course, in saying that it's not new, that it's like what we've","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-20T15:31:52.742Z","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":"2026-01-20T15:31:57.960Z","ts":"2026-01-20T15:31:59.407Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFCZWTBNJH4WFMS8354919KY"}}