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The Grand Inquisitor, by Feodor Dostoevsky
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Title: The Grand Inquisitor
Author: Feodor Dostoevsky
Translator: H. P. Blavatsky
Posting Date: June 28, 2010 [EBook #8578] Release Date: July, 2005 First Posted: July 25, 2003
Language: English
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THE GRAND INQUISITOR
By
Feodor Dostoevsky
(Translation by H.P. Blavatsky)
[Dedicated by the Translator to those sceptics who clamour so loudly, both in print and private letters--"Show us the wonder-working 'Brothers,' let them come out publicly--and we will believe in them!"]
[The following is an extract from M. Dostoevsky's celebrated novel, The Brothers Karamazof, the last publication from the pen of the great Russian novelist, who died a few months ago, just as the concluding chapters appeared in print. Dostoevsky is beginning to be recognized as one of the ablest and profoundest among Russian writers. His characters are invariably typical portraits drawn from various classes of Russian society, strikingly life-like and realistic to the highest degree. The following extract is a cutting satire on modern theology generally and the Roman Catholic religion in par