1 He fell to the earth on the spot.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 6: CHAPTER VIII 2 The water fell not in drops, but beat on the earth in streams.
3 But he scraped the earth about it and pressed it at the edges with his foot.
4 The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth, he added dreamily, not in the tone of the conversation.
5 He knelt down in the middle of the square, bowed down to the earth, and kissed that filthy earth with bliss and rapture.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 6: CHAPTER VIII 6 The man of genius is one of millions, and the great geniuses, the crown of humanity, appear on earth perhaps one in many thousand millions.
7 A man in health has, of course, no reason to see them, because he is above all a man of this earth and is bound for the sake of completeness and order to live only in this life.
8 They were a pure chosen people, destined to found a new race and a new life, to renew and purify the earth, but no one had seen these men, no one had heard their words and their voices.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 6: CHAPTER VIII 9 The conviction grew stronger in him that if that enigmatic man of yesterday, that phantom sprung out of the earth, had seen everything, they would not have let him stand and wait like that.
10 But as soon as one is ill, as soon as the normal earthly order of the organism is broken, one begins to realise the possibility of another world; and the more seriously ill one is, the closer becomes one's contact with that other world, so that as soon as the man dies he steps straight into that world.