Chapter IX

. was excluded from the novel. The words of the Apocalypse, “And to the Angel of the Laodicean Church,” would hardly have been repeated by Dostoevsky at the end of the novel in the last talk of Stepan Trofimovich with the “book-pedlar,” if he had not considered that Chapter IX . was finally excluded from the text.

Although _The Possessed_ was published more than once after 1871, Dostoevsky, though no longer bound by Katkov’s censorship, did not include