John Kuti
John Kuti
Aug 23, 2017 · 1 min read

Of course we now live in an age when silly and mendacious communications have already crippled everybody’s brain; and it’s really not going to be easy to restore a proper place for the unspectacular, quiet and modest as a force in society.

Here Rostopchin, his gossiping adjutant, and the supposed traitor, the tradesman’s son Vereschagin, are all guilty of using their right to free speech without remembering the obligation to truth and wisdom that ought to go with it. Both Rostopchin and Vereschagin are real historical persons by the way, and the details of the case against Vereschagin have a Russian wikipedia page.

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English teacher in Saint Petersburg, Russia