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"Excuse me, but you know one really can’t argue in that way," he observed. But Konstantin Levin wanted to justify himself for the failing, of which he was conscious, of lack of zeal for the public welfare, and he went on. "I imagine," he said, "that no sort of activity is likely to be lasting if it is not founded on self-interest, that’s a universal principle, a philosophical principle," he said, repeating the word "philosophical" with determination, as though wishing to show that he had as much right as any one else to talk of philosophy. Sergey Ivanovitch smiled. "He too has a philosophy of his own at the service of his natural tendencies," he thought. "Come, you’d better let philosophy alone," he said. "The chief problem of the philosophy of all ages consists just in finding the ind