Nature’s law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this be packaged into a comprehensible thought. In the soup of everyday life, in the mixture of minutia from which human relations are woven, it is not a law. It is a logical incongruity when both strong and weak fall victim to their mutual relations, unconsciously subservient to some unknown guiding power that stands outside of life, irrelevant to man.
ATTRIBUTION:
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904), Russian author, playwright. Korolev’s thoughts in Episode from a Practice, Works, vol. 10, p. 82, “Nauka” (1976).
