they are not childish and stupid but the most important and

profound of life's questions; and secondly that, occupying myself

with my Samara estate, the education of my son, or the writing of

a book, I had to know *why* I was doing it. As long as I did not

know why, I could do nothing and could not live. Amid the thoughts

of estate management which greatly occupied me at that time, the

question would suddenly occur: "Well, you will have 6,000

desyatinas [Footnote: The desyatina is about 2.75 acres.--A.M.] of