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"I am not wrong. I'll show you their pamphlets. Everything with

them is 'the influence of environment,' and nothing else. Their

favourite phrase! From which it follows that, if society is

normally organised, all crime will cease at once, since there

will be nothing to protest against and all men will become

righteous in one instant. Human nature is not taken into account,

it is excluded, it's not supposed to exist! They don't recognise

that humanity, developing by a historical living process, will

become at last a normal society, but they believe that a social

system that has come out of some mathematical brain is going to

organise all humanity at once and make it just and sinless in an

instant, quicker than any living process! That's why they

instinctively dislike history, 'nothing but ugliness and

stupidity in it,' and they explain it all as stupidity! That's

why they so dislike the living process of life; they don't want a

living soul!