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“Ah, when one looks at our young people, Prince, one would like to take Peter the Great’s old cudgel out of the museum and belabor them in the Russian way till all the nonsense jumps out of them”, the words spoken by a generation lost touch with reality. And this always happens to the old: they think the young are all debauched and lazy. The old Prince characterizes this decline of reason we all face.