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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: of the religious superstitions in which he was brought up, and
did not himself exactly know when it was that he freed himself of
them. Being earnest and upright, he did not, during his youth and
intimacy with Nekhludoff as a student, conceal his rejection of
the State religion. But as years went on and he rose in the
service, and especially at the time of the reaction towards
conservatism in society, his spiritual freedom stood in his way.
At home, when his father died, he had to be present at the masses
said for his soul, and his mother wished him to go to confession
or to communion, and it was in a way expected, by public opinion,
but above all, Government service demanded that he should be
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