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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: preserved -- the white tie still worn by doctors; for a learned
-- in fact, for any educated man the only traditions that can
exist are those of the University as a whole, with no distinction
between medicine, law, etc. But it would be hard for Pyotr
Ignatyevitch to accept these facts, and he is ready to argue with
you till the day of judgment.
I have a clear picture in my mind of his future. In the course of
his life he will prepare many hundreds of chemicals of
exceptional purity; he will write a number of dry and very
accurate memoranda, will make some dozen conscientious
translations, but he won't do anything striking. To do that one
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