I know. I know. I've been slacking.

Bazarov stays with the Kirsanov family for about a fortnight (which I learned is relative to two weeks), and while there, Bazarov continues to annoy the elder Kirsanovs, especially Pavel, but he begins making a weird relationship with the servants in the household. He is condescending but playful, yet the help love to be around him. Bazarov later makes the claim that he is "more Russian" than Pavel because he is of the people. His grandfather plowed the land like the majority of the Russian serfs. He says that money, culture, and following the status quo do not make a man more ethnically tied to their homeland. A rather good argument, though when looking back on Russian culture and history, people do stereotypically think of the Romanovs and the well-adorned, high class society.

THE FIGHT

What brings the visit to the Kirsanov home to an end, is a fight that Pavel and Bazarov have one evening at dinner.
They discuss the current English Patriarch system. Pavel and Nikolai revere the English for their organized government. They find it brilliantly practical that the British expect their peasants to behave a certain way, but the aristocrats also hold themselves to the same standard.
 Says Pavel:

"They do not abate one iota of their rights, and for that reason they respect the rights of others; they demand the fulfillment of obligations in dealing with them, and for that reason they fulfill their own obligations" (37).

Pavel associates himself with words like, "Aristocracy," "Liberalism," "Progress," and "Principles".

The essence of Nihilism really comes out in this scene. When Bazarov continues to disagree and counter Pavel, Pavel asks, "What do you do, then"?
What do Nihilists do? Because so far, it seems that they do nothing.
Bazarov describes exactly that.
Nihilists take no action. They take no action because there aren't enough honest men. Why work for peasants when the peasants are fools who believe in superstition and who spend all their extra earnings, not to better themselves, but to get drunk at the local "pot-house".
Nihilism is interesting then, at least from how Bazarov depicts it. This whole time he has been looking down on the Kirsanovs for being wealthy land owners and he made it seem like he wanted equality for all men, but now he is accusing peasants of being lazy and not worth working toward reform for.

It is ironic that Peter the Great worked for advancements in his country, advancements that Nikolai and Pavel obviously support and have been influenced by (they regularly speak French), yet, the youth now are working toward "improvements" that go against Peter's ideas of advancements.
Bazarov at one point denounces all government agencies. He basically says:
 Take a good hard look at our current political standing. Try and find one institution that does not call for a complete repudiation, rejection, or disownment.
When Bazarov says this, it sounds like he is calling for reform, but really, on Nihilist principle, he wants no action at all.

Personally, I just don't understand Nihilism. How can a country run without officials? How can a company run without CEO's organizing the workers? Bazarov claims that any hierarchy is unjust, but in reality, that is what life requires. There is always going to be a working class and there is always going to be an elite group, but that is because these groups are necessary.  
Someone has to do the organizing and administrating while someone else has to follow orders and complete tasks. How else would things get done? If there were no laws or order, some superior rule to govern, there would be chaos.
Bazarov claims to denounce all notions toward Romanticism, but it is a romantic thought in itself to believe that a country could go on supporting itself civilly without some sort of hierarchy. Wishful thinking Bazarov, wishful thinking.

The discussion between Pavel and Bazarov goes on further, and it really deserves a good reading for those of you following me. The chapter (X) goes into great length, reasoning through topics that I have not touched on here. If you find any points that you think deserve more discussion, please, post your thoughts! I would love to know what other people think of this.
Essentially, the fight ends with Pavel saying that Nihlism will never succeed, that there are too few of supporters for it to be a large, ground-breaking movement. Bazarov responds:

"All Moscow was burnt down, you know, by a penny candle," (42).

A magnificent quote I think. One of empowerment and inspiration. It reminds me of my favorite quote from the Disney movie Mulan, "A single grain of rice can tip the scale." So wise.

After the dinner ends, Nikolai ponders the evenings events.
To be honest, Arkady was kind of a dunce the entire argument, only interjecting once or twice and blindly supporting Bazarov on no grounds except for the fact that he idolizes him (and for what reasons, we do not know!). He didn't really do anything grand to make a parent proud. Still, Nikolai is despondent over the fact that his dear son his growing up and taking a course very different in life from his own. The innocent and blind love that Father and Son have for each other is beginning to wane. The strong connection and relationship that the two used to have is eroding.
Nikolai sums it up when he says to Pavel:

"Do you know what I was reminded of, brother? I once had a dispute with our late mother; she shouted, and wouldn't listen to me. At last I said to her, 'Of course, you can't understane me; we belong,' I said, 'to two different generations.' She was dereadfully offended, while I thought, 'It can't be helped. It's a bitter pill, but she has to swallow it.' You see, now, our turn has come, and our successors can say to us, 'You are not of our generation; swallow your pill' " (42).

How sad, but how true? I'm sure close to everyone has experienced this universal reality. That the parent or relation you once glorified, labeled as your one true confidant who understood you inside and out, has aged drastically in a matter of weeks. Their views seem so aged, their habits and manners archaic. And now when you have conversations, you are distracted by just how old they have become, or possibly, by how you never noticed their stale and flaked mannerisms before. 
I'm a ways away from it now, but how forlorn for the parent to find that they are at that point, that their children now look at them how they once also looked at their parents when they reached the terrible epiphany, the awareness of the difference in decades, and the differences in culture.