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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: swallow-tail coats wearing epaulettes, or bedecked with lace. And
so the investigation of the reasons why all these very different
persons were put in prison, while others just like them were
going about free and even judging them, formed a fourth task for
Nekhludoff.
He hoped to find an answer to this question in books, and bought
all that referred to it. He got the works of Lombroso, Garofalo,
Ferry, List, Maudsley, Tard, and read them carefully. But as he
read he became more and more disappointed. It happened to him as
it always happens to those who turn to science not in order to
play a part in it, nor to write, nor to dispute, nor to teach,
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