"excuse me," continued evgenie pavlovitch hotly, "i don’t say a word against liberalism. liberalism is not a sin, it is a necessary part of a great whole, which whole would collapse and fall to pieces without it. liberalism has just as much right to exist as has the most moral conservatism; but i am attacking russian liberalism; and i attack it for the simple reason that a russian liberal is not a russian liberal, he is a non-russian liberal. show me a real russian liberal, and i’ll kiss him before you all, with pleasure."