I asked you confidentially, quite by chance.

There's no article at all.

I'm not publishing, and you haven't the right..." Liputin was obviously enjoying himself.
"I beg your pardon, perhaps I made a mistake in calling your literary work an article.

He is only collecting observations, and the essence of the question, or, so to say, its moral aspect he is not touching at all.
And, indeed, he rejects morality itself altogether, and holds with the last new principle of general destruction for the sake of ultimate good.

He demands already more than a hundred million heads for the establishment of common sense in Europe; many more than they demanded at the last Peace Congress.