ANTON TCHEKHOV (CREATION FROM THE VOID) THE GIFT OF PROPHECY PENULTIMATE WORDS THE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE It is not to be denied that Russian thought is chiefly manifested in the great Russian novelists. Tolstoi, Dostoevsky, and Tchekhov made explicit in their works conceptions of the world which yield nothing in definiteness to the philosophic schemes of the great dogmatists of old, and perhaps may be regarded as even superior to them in that by their nature they emphasise a relation of which the professional philosopher is too often careless--the intimate connection between philosophy and life. They attacked fearlessly and with a high devotion of which we English readers are slowly becoming …
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