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.
Once a nation really believes it has the obligation to civilize the world, this is historically a sign that the nation is going to fall on some very hard times.
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.