Both Uses of
vocation
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- To my thinking it is their duty to be controlled, because that's their vocation, and there is nothing humiliating in it for them.†
Chpt 3.5 *vocation = a particular type of job
- There's no need for such anxiety, however; the masses will scarcely ever admit this right, they punish them or hang them (more or less), and in doing so fulfil quite justly their conservative vocation.†
Chpt 3.5