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Anna Karenina




                                                        Chapter 7


                                     On arriving in Moscow by a morning train, Levin had
                                  put up at the house of his elder half-brother, Koznishev.
                                  After changing his clothes he went down to his brother’s
                                  study, intending to talk to him at once about the object of
                                  his visit, and to ask his advice; but his brother was not
                                  alone. With him there was a well-known professor of
                                  philosophy, who had come from Harkov expressly to clear
                                  up a difference that had arisen between them on a very
                                  important philosophical question. The professor was
                                  carrying on a hot crusade against materialists. Sergey
                                  Koznishev had been following this crusade with interest,
                                  and after reading the professor’s last article, he had written
                                  him a letter stating his objections. He accused the
                                  professor of making too great concessions to the
                                  materialists. And the professor had promptly appeared to
                                  argue the matter out. The point in discussion was the
                                  question then in vogue: Is there a line to be drawn
                                  between psychological and physiological phenomena in
                                  man? and if so, where?
                                     Sergey Ivanovitch met his brother with the smile of
                                  chilly friendliness he always had for everyone, and




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