“and they had not been privileged to experience the dizzy descent he had surrendered to--and the humiliating things were always median and mediocre, aiming at moderation and discretion--and this was precisely what they were--only an all-consuming, all encompassing idea could liberate a man, make him free and place him above everything else, even if the means of realizing this idea had to be a crime--and all surrendering themselves to such an idea, but even of beginning to comprehend it, and they were all constantly engaged in calculation and circumspection, subordinating their lives to material considerations.”