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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: "But I have, and I consider it's premature, but rational, and it
has a future, just like Christianity in its first ages."
"All that I maintain is that the labor force ought to be
investigated from the point of view of-natural science; that is
to say, it ought to be studied, its qualities ascertained . . ."
"But that's utter waste of time. That force finds a certain form
of activity of itself, according to the stage of its development.
There have been slaves first everywhere, then metayers; and we
have the half-crop system, rent, and day-laborers. What are you
trying to find?"
Levin suddenly lost his temper at these words, because at the
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