But we are sick from having only half become Europeans, we must take a hair of the dog that bit us ("le cadastre," thought Lavretsky).

"The best head, les meilleures tetes," he continued, "among us have long been convinced of it.

All peoples are essentially alike; only introduce among them good institutions, and the thing is done.

Of course there may be adaptation to the existing national life; that is our affair--the affair of the official (he almost said "governing") class.

But in case of need don't be uneasy.
The institutions will transform the life itself." Marya Dmitrievna most feelingly assented to all Panshin said.