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Passion. Eugenie was born during an earthquake. Her father, a Spanish count who had served under Napoleon, was a sort of primitive Pavlov. He used to seat the nervous little girl astride a cannon and fire it off again & again while, with the one good eye the wars had left him, he studied her reactions. Eugenie became a Napoleon-cultist, a frenzied romantic. After the death of her father, Eugenie and her mother wintered in Paris, where the new emperor, Louis Napoleon, fell passionately in love with her. But her marriage (in 1853) was no love match; she was infatuated...
Most of the seven meetings were held in Eden's room at the Foreign Office, where Molotov and Eden spent their working hours around a small table, with Molotov's secretary, M. Pavlov, doing some interpreting, Maisky doing most of it. The treaty was initialed at the Foreign Office in the quiet shop-shut
Stalin said: . . . These people, devoid of conscience and honor, people with a morale of beasts, have the impudence to call for the destruction of the great Russian nation, the nation of Plekhanov, of Lenin, of Belinsky and Chernyshevsky, Pushkin, Tolstoy, Glinka and Tchaikovsky, Gorki, Chekhov, Sechenov and Pavlov, Repin and Surikov, Suvarov and Kutuzov...
Gorki, son of an upholsterer, himself a worker in the railway shops of Tiflis, wrote of tramps and social outcasts with the familiarity of a man who was one. A city took his name. Chekhov made heroes and heroines of people who suffered. Sechenov and Pavlov, the greatest Russian physiologists, tried to analyze suffering...
...organism as ourselves," says Sherrington, "... a certain residue seemingly not thus resoluble" into chemico-physical energy-systems. This nonmaterial residue is the mind. Sherrington's half-century of studying the human brain has proved that mental behavior is not entirely reflex and thus rooted ultimately in matter (as Pavlov's Soviet disciples believe...