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Anna Karenina

subject from motives of self-interest and self-
advertisement. He recognized that the newspapers
published a great deal that was superfluous and
exaggerated, with the sole aim of attracting attention and

outbidding one another. He saw that in this general
movement those who thrust themselves most forward and
shouted the loudest were men who had failed and were
smarting under a sense of injury—generals without armies,
ministers not in the ministry, journalists not on any paper,
party leaders without followers. He saw that there was a
great deal in it that was frivolous and absurd. But he saw
and recognized an unmistakable growing enthusiasm,
uniting all classes, with which it was impossible not to
sympathize. The massacre of men who were fellow
Christians, and of the same Slavonic race, excited
sympathy for the sufferers and indignation against the
oppressors. And the heroism of the Servians and
Montenegrins struggling for a great cause begot in the
whole people a longing to help their brothers not in word
but in deed.
But in this there was another aspect that rejoiced
Sergey Ivanovitch. That was the manifestation of public
opinion. The public had definitely expressed its desire.
The soul of the people had, as Sergey Ivanovitch said,

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