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He succeeded so well in persuading his brother, and in lending

him money for the journey without irritating him, that he was

satisfied with himself in that matter. In addition to his

farming, which called for special attention in spring, and in

addition to reading, Levin had begun that winter a work on

agriculture, the plan of which turned on taking into account the

character of the laborer on the land as one of the unalterable

data of the question, like the climate and the soil, and

consequently deducing all the principles of scientific culture,

not simply from the data of soil and climate, but from the data

of soil, climate, and a certain unalterable character of the

laborer. Thus, in spite of his solitude, or in consequence of his

solitude, his life was exceedingly full. Only rarely he suffered

from an unsatisfied desire to communicate his stray ideas to

someone besides Agafea Mihalovna.