This one's via Dostoevsky to Maikov in 1870:
Exactly the same thing happened in our country: the devils went out of the Russian man and entered into a herd of swine, into the Nechaevs (nihilists)… These are drowned or will be drowned, and the healed man, from whom the devils have departed, sits at the feet of Jesus… And bear this in mind, my dear friend, that a man who loses his people and his national roots also loses faith in his fathers and his God. Well, if you really want to know – this is in essence the theme of my novel [Demons].
Note the seer-like precision of will be drowned. Take heart from that, but know, great will be the fall of it.
Cheers,
LSP
