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I have found the other passage in Dostoevsky. I think it is the one you mean. + 

тАЬAnd we alone, we who guard the mystery, we alone shall be unhappy. There will be thousands of millions of happy children and only a hundred thousand martyrs who have taken on themselves the curse of good and evil.тАЭ + 

You mean, and Dostoevsky meant, that there must always be individualists. It is the individualists who carry on the torch. Men welded into a vast machine must ultimately perish. For the machine is soulless and will end as scrap iron. + 

Men worshipped stone and built StonehengeтБатАФand today, the men who built it have perished and are unknown and Stonehenge stands. And yet, by a paradox, the men are alive in you and me, their descendants, and Stonehenge and what it stood for, is dead. The things that die endure, and the things that endure perish. + 

It is Man that goes on forever. (Does he? IsnтАЩt that unwarrantable arrogance? Yet we believe it!) And so, there must be individualists behind the Machine. So Dostoevsky says and so you say. But then youтАЩre both Russians. As an Englishman IтАЩm more pessimistic. + 

Do you know what that passage from Dostoevsky reminds me of? My childhood. Mr.┬аGreenтАЩs hundred childrenтБатАФand Poodle, Squirrel and Tree. Representatives of the hundred thousand. + 