Thus Liberalism became habitual to Oblonsky, and he loved his paper as he loved his after-dinner cigar, for the slight mistiness it produced in his brain. He read the leading article, which explained that in our time it is needless to raise the cry that Radicalism is threatening to swallow up all Conservative elements and to maintain that the Government should take measures to crush the hydra of revolution; for, on the contrary, 'in our opinion the danger lies not in an imaginary hydra of revolution but in an obstinate clinging to tradition which hampers progress,' etc.
Leyó el artículo de fondo, que afirmaba que es absurdo que en nuestros tiempos se levante el grito aseverando que el radicalismo amenaza con devorar todo lo tradicional y que urge adoptar medidas para aplastar la hidra revolucionaria, ya que, «muy al contrario, nuestra opinión es que el mal no está en esta supuesta hidra revolucionaria, sino en el terco tradicionalismo que retarda el progreso...» .