“A lot of objections, oral and printed, were made to my report entitled “The People and the Intelligentsia.” What I will talk about today represents the development of the same topic. I don’t want to defend myself from reproaches, but I will defend my topic. If I myself really didn’t have enough voice (as D.S. Merezhkovsky said), then my topic, I’m sure of it, sooner or later, will extinguish all the annoying party and personal disputes...”