it is even said that blood gushed from his throat." Soon 

 after this incident Warnek retired, insisting on it despite 

 intensive persuasion. 



Already this comparison of evidence shows the impos- 

 sibility of placing complete responsibility on Warnek himself 

 for what occurred. The objective evidence of Lebedinsky about 

 Warnek f s talented lectures to the students and medical men 

 and their good relation to him unmasks the tendentious 

 assertion of Mitropolsky that Warnek' s lectures gave nothing 

 to the students. The impression one has of Warnek is of a 

 serious, exacting professor who loved his subject and taught 

 it on a high level. Certain students and medical men under- 

 stood his efforts and valued his services to them, while 

 the majority of students were interested in the applied 

 questions and not in understanding Warnek' s theoretical 

 views, and saw him only as a strict examiner who shamed them, 

 in addition to his ridiculing of their ignorance. 



In all this sad "history of Warnek" there is still one 

 significant side which can be read between the following 

 lines in Lebedinsky 's memoirs: "Even among the professors 

 there were people who sympathized with the students, the 

 professor of theology Sergievsky among them. This handsome, 

 somewhat fanciful, young orator was sometimes present in the 

 department. He unnoticeably and cleverly approached the evils 

 of the day, said a few words hinting at an excellent under- 

 standing of the students, and was zealously rewarded with 

 applause. In the time of the aforementioned event, one of 

 his lectures, which was full of these hints, ended with the 

 following significant words: 'Yes, this darkness does not 

 triumph over the world!"' 



It is logical to ask why Warnek was not pleasing to 

 the professor of theology. What world of darkness and damage 

 spreading from Warnek 's department was frightening to 

 Sergievsky? To answer this question is not difficult. Warnek 

 was a convinced materialist, as is easy to ascertain from 

 a study of his basic work. It is improbable that in his 

 lectures Warnek did not touch upon questions of ideology, 

 which, of course, was used against him by Sergievsky, who 

 considered it his responsibility to protect the world of 

 "religion" from the "darkness" of the natural-scientific 



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