Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.

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.