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Anna Karenina

considerations, and remains indifferent to the influence its
measures may exercise. The education of women, for
instance, would naturally be regarded as likely to be
harmful, but the government opens schools and

universities for women.’
And the conversation at once passed to the new subject
of the education of women.
Alexey Alexandrovitch expressed the idea that the
education of women is apt to be confounded with the
emancipation of women, and that it is only so that it can
be considered dangerous.
‘I consider, on the contrary, that the two questions are
inseparably connected together,’ said Pestsov; ‘it is a
vicious circle. Woman is deprived of rights from lack of
education, and the lack of education results from the
absence of rights. We must not forget that the subjection
of women is so complete, and dates from such ages back
that we are often unwilling to recognize the gulf that
separates them from us,’ said he.
‘You said rights,’ said Sergey Ivanovitch, waiting till
Pestsov had finished, ‘meaning the right of sitting on
juries, of voting, of presiding at official meetings, the right
of entering the civil service, of sitting in parliament..’
‘Undoubtedly.’

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