Unlike the primal heroes and knights, these adventurers didn't journey into new worlds to battle dragons and other monsters, they went there to civilize it.
Yet Goncharov's long passage probing Russian motives for civilizing Siberia, in which self-interest and profit were considered, only to be rejected, earned Muraveisky's disfavor.
Either you think--or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.