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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: Nekhludoff would have answered that he had not the strength to
alter the existing order of things; that it was not he who was
administering the estate; and would one way or another have eased
his conscience, continuing to live far from his estates, and
having the money sent him. But now he decided that he could not
leave things to go on as they were, but would have to alter them
in a way unprofitable to himself, even though he had all these
complicated and difficult relations with the prison world which
made money necessary, as well as a probable journey to Siberia
before him. Therefore he decided not to farm the land, but to let
it to the peasants at a low rent, to enable them to cultivate it
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