We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.

He is held responsible for creating a political climate leading to the emancipation of the serfs in 1861. 9 January] 1870) was a Russian writer and thinker known as the "father of Russian socialism" and one of the main fathers of agrarian populism (being an ideological ancestor of the Narodniki Socialist-Revolutionaries Trudoviks and the agrarian American Populist Party). S.