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Kraft und Stoff
also: Force and Matter, Stoff und Kraft
Ludwig Büchner's 1855 German materialist tract (title: 'Force and Matter'), a byword for crude scientific materialism, invoked drunkenly by Ivan Ivanovich as he confesses his youthful irreligion.
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- Untitled Play (Bezottsovshchina / "Platonov") §1721 Stoff und Kraft!
German for "Matter and Force" -- the title of Ludwig Büchner's 1855 materialist tract (Kraft und Stoff), a byword for crude scientific materialism; Ivan Ivanovich invokes it drunkenly while confessing his youthful irreligion.