Winter Notes on Summer Impressions - Alma Classics

winter notes on summer impressions
lightness of touch, he is apt to elaborate what Herzen merely hints
at; he ploughs, in fact, where Herzen sows. But then he lacks, too,
Herzen’s sense of disillusionment, his scepticism and his religious
agnosticism. This may be one of the reasons why, despite all Herzen’s
advantages of superior wit, culture and education, it is not his but
Dostoevsky’s name and Dostoevsky’s philosophy of life that has
made the greater impact on humanity.
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Kyril FitzLyon