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To these should be added, among many others whom he mentions elsewhere, the names especially of Boehme, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Marx, Tolstoi, Kierkegaard. And Widely as the thought of many of these thinkers diverge from each other, and widely as they also diverge in certain respects from his own, all have contributed their quota of grist to the mill of his thought. Yet, high though they stand in his estimation of the great, they are not essential to his philosophy; if any thinker may be said to be that, it is his compatriot Dostoievsky.
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