They feel that untruth will stifle them if they don't take thought
of themselves."
And in her leisure hours she sat down to the books, and again looked
over the pictures, each time finding something new, ever widening
the panorama of life before her eyes, unfolding the beauties of
nature and the vigorous creative capacity of man. Nikolay often
found her poring over the pictures. He would smile and always tell
her something wonderful. Struck by man's daring, she would ask him
incredulously, "Is it possible?"
Quietly, with unshakable confidence in the truth of his prophecies,
Nikolay peered with his kind eyes through his glasses into the
mother's face, and told her stories of the future.
"There is no measure to the desires of man; and his power is
inexhaustible," he said. "But the world, after all, is still very
slow in acquiring spiritual wealth. Because nowadays everyone
desiring to free himself from dependence is compelled to hoard,
not knowledge but money. However, when the people will have
exterminated greed and will have freed themselves from the bondage
of enslaving labor--"
She listened to him with strained attention. Though she but rarely
understood the meaning of his words, yet the calm faith animating
them penetrated her more and more deeply.
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