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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: But what revolted Nekhludoff most was that there were men in the
law courts and in the ministry who received large salaries, taken
from the people, for referring to books written by men like
themselves and with like motives, and sorting actions that
violated laws made by themselves according to different statutes;
and, in obedience to these statutes, sending those guilty of such
actions to places where they were completely at the mercy of
cruel, hardened inspectors, jailers, convoy soldiers, where
millions of them perished body and soul.
Now that he had a closer knowledge of prisons, Nekhludoff found
out that all those vices which developed among the
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