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depraved. He is not like the Polish landed proprietors,
who in Galicia (until in more recent times it was
prohibited) tortured their Little-Russian peasants, and
prevented their going to church, by locking the doors of the
Greek church to them, and giving the keys to the Jews,
so that the peasants must buy them back in order to
worship the Lord on their festivals; — he has himself no
kind of religion, and he is willing that all men should
have theirs. Nor is he like the Polish landed proprietor
in Galicia of the present day, who lives by the manufacture
of spirits, and by forcing as much of it as possible
into his peasants. His heart is without any sensitiveness;
he is as harsh as he is obstinate; but he does
no man any harm. In his youth he has been a humanitarian
— not from emotion, but from force of a process
of reasoning in which the right is the logical justice;
now he is so no longer to that extent, as he no longer
believes in the utility of the efforts of single individuals
in respect to the great sum of social misery, and as he
is entirely incapable of the enthusiasm which leads to
action even if the profit of the action is infinitesimally
small. Very sharp-sighted as he is, he feels an almost
personal hostility to all metaphysics; he has written a
book, a sort of philosophy of mathematics, in which he
advocates the necessity of introducing object lessons
into the department of mathematics, and combats the
use of the words line, point, etc., as unreal abstractions.
Like so many persons with mathematical minds, he is
skilled in music, well informed in all musical technics,
conversant with modern music, and eager to hear a great
deal of good music well performed.
As coarse as a peasant, unrefined but not frivolous,
narrow but not shallow, reckless and loving money but
upright and sometimes almost liberal, he is a decided
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