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Anna Karenina

country ought to increase proportionally, and especially in
such a way that other sources of wealth should not outstrip
agriculture; that in harmony with a certain stage of
agriculture there should be means of communication

corresponding to it, and that in our unsettled condition of
the land, railways, called into being by political and not by
economic needs, were premature, and instead of
promoting agriculture, as was expected of them, they were
competing with agriculture and promoting the
development of manufactures and credit, and so arresting
its progress; and that just as the one-sided and premature
development of one organ in an animal would hinder its
general development, so in the general development of
wealth in Russia, credit, facilities of communication,
manufacturing activity, indubitably necessary in Europe,
where they had arisen in their proper time, had with us
only done harm, by throwing into the background the
chief question calling for settlement—the question of the
organization of agriculture.
While he was writing his ideas she was thinking how
unnaturally cordial her husband had been to young Prince
Tcharsky, who had, with great want of tact, flirted with
her the day before they left Moscow. ‘He’s jealous,’ she
thought. ‘Goodness! how sweet and silly he is! He’s

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