"Conscience has disappeared" is the popular tale of Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin, the famous Russian writer of the nineteenth century (1826-1889). *** Conscience is expelled as useless, and she is forced to wander in white light until she has found refuge in a small Russian child. Saltykov-Shchedrin wrote in the style of accusatory pathos, satire on the one hand, and profound psychology...