He saw them wildly talking as idealist sentimentalists, and at the same time acting as real barbarians toward their wives, their children, and their serfs; and he rose in revolt against that sort of sentimentalism, which, after all, so nicely accommodated itself to the anything but ideal conditions of Russian life.
Kropotkin portrays a person's revolt against the hypocrisy of idealist sentimentalists who mistreat their families.
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