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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: knew all this when still a university student, he had confessed
and preached Henry Georgeism, and, on the basis of that teaching,
had given the land inherited from his father to the peasants. It
is true that after entering the army, when he got into the habit
of spending 20,000 roubles a year, those former occupations
ceased to be regarded as a duty, and were forgotten, and he not
only left off asking himself where the money his mother allowed
him came from, but even avoided thinking about it. But his
mother's death, the coming into the property, and the necessity
of managing it, again raised the question as to what his position
in reference to private property in land was. A month before
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