He had seen in the papers the articles they were discussing, and had read them because they interested him as a development of the bases of natural science – familiar to him as he had studied in that faculty at the University but he had never connected these scientific deductions as to man's animal origin, reflex actions, biology and sociology, with those questions concerning the meaning to himself of life and death, which had of late more and more frequently occurred to him.
Левин встречал в журналах статьи, о которых шла речь, и читал их, интересуясь ими, как развитием знакомых ему, как естественнику по университету, основ естествознания, но никогда не сближал этих научных выводов о происхождении человека как животного, о рефлексах, о биологии и социологии с теми вопросами о значении жизни и смерти для себя самого, кото-- рые в последнее время чаще и чаще приходили ему на ум.