Chapter 3

The author travels 

His faith in perfection increased by his contact with European civilisation 

This faith shattered by witnessing the execution of a criminal at Paris 

Death of the author's brother 

The author establishes peasant schools 

New travels abroad 

Judicial service, teaching, journalism 

Mental disease 

Departure for the Steppes Marriage 

The influence of family life 

The author continues to write 

A crisis 

Life has no joys if we do not know its meaning 

Morally speaking, the author feels himself incapable of life