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Dostoevsky « always saw his public role, both then (in appeasing the Chernyshevsky) and in the future, to be that of a reconciler and mediator, not a partisan. And even though he might sympathize with some of the aims of the radicals, he thought that the attempt to realize those aims through outright rebellion could only lead to disaster. »