Anna Karenina

e to time, but never leaving him. He read and thought, and the more he rea

ution in the materialists, he had read and re-read thoroughly Plato, Spinoza, Kant, Schelling

xed definition of obscure words such as spirit, will, freedom, essence, purposely letting himself go into the snare of words the philosophers set for him, he seemed to comprehend something. But he had only to forget the artificial train of reasoning, and to turn from life itself to what had

s new philosophy charmed him, till he removed a little away from it. But then, when he turned from life it

n, but to a corporation of men bound together by love-to the church. What delighted him was the thought how much easier it was to believe in a still existing living church, embracing all the beliefs of men, and having God at its head, and therefore holy and infallible, and from it to accept the faith in God, in the creation, the fall, the redemption, than to begin with God, a mysterious, far-

himself, and went through

, life's impossible; and that I can't know,

space, is formed a bubble-organism, and that bubb

as the sole logical result of ages

heir ramifications rested. It was the prevalent conviction, and of all other explanations Levin h

e cruel jeer of some wicked power, some evil

every man had in his own hands. He had but to cut shor

so near suicide that he hid the cord that he might not be tempted to hang

imself, and did not hang