... the most important condition for prosperity, like these, and all other spiritual blessings, was forgotten, forgotten and even rejected. We mean the inner life of man, the life of a moral person. Is it not since then that Russian people began to be likened to our infidel neighbors in that outwardly legalistic, heartless mood in which a person only cares that his every single act is not a violation of the exact and clearly defined laws of a conditionally enlightened society, but about the purity of his conscience, about softening the heart, he completely forgets about the sincere discussion of his inner impulses. Yes, our society forgot about this, being carried away by the brilliant pictures of the new ennobled order of life, it forgot, giving its heart and its mind to the search and establishment of just external orders and being proud of them, as it once was - Ahab or Nebuchadnezzar with its brilliant institutions.
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