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Часть текста: christian it is not necessary to renounce the position that he occupies for the reason of non-conformity of his position with his faith; he must only put in his position — it may be of an emperor, of a hangman, a president, a spy, a priest, a soldier, a judge — act in the position in which the christian enlightenment found him, as his conscience bids him, and the result will be just what it ought to be: he will be chassed from the position that he ocupied and that may be the best thing for him. That is what I think about the difficulty Mr. Jones is in. It is great joy for me to know that there are men like Mr. Jones professing the christian doctrine not only in words but in deeds. Give him please my respect and love. What a pitiful state of jingoistic hypnotization is your people in now. It is dreadful but gives me nothing unexpected and new. This terrible evil and superstition which is called a virtue and which is unhappily so strong in America — patriotism could not produce anything else. They do not gather grapes from thornes... And so patriotism produces only lies, violence, murder. The sole sorrow of my old age is that I have not succeded to communicate to my brothers the truth which I feel with the same evidence as I feel the light of the sun. That patriotism must lead to lies, violence, murder and the loss not only of material wellbeing but of the greatest moral depravation. I am not yet discouraged and am now writing again on the same subject an article entitled «Carthago delenda est»; I will speak and write on this theme till my last breath because I think patriotism is one of the draedfullest delusions and evils of the world. Yours truly Leo Tolstoy. 23 апреля 1898. Дорогой Кросби, Я думаю, что Джонс совершенно правильно поступил, отказавшись помочь в принуждении, которое было нужно для общего блага....
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Часть текста: (Percy Redfern), 23 февраля 1903 г. 57. Перси Редферну (Percy Redfern). 1903 г. Февраля 23. Я. П. Dear Percy Redfern, I think your friend who is against books and reading is quite right. Lao Tze says: true words are not pleasant, pleasant words are not true. The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise. The Brahmanes say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best preceptes the smalest good deed. Ruskin says, that the best men, those which have done the greatest good to humanity are those that we do not know of. The chief difference between words and deeds is, that words are always intended for men for their aprobation, but deeds can be done only for God. Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God it is very difficult not to think about the impression w[h]ich they will produce on men and...
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Часть текста: none for us. If Christ in body ascended the sky, he is ascending it still and never will reach the seat at the right hand of his father. And the same stands for all the miracles of the gospel. I think that the faith in the miracle excludes the faith in the teaching. If Christ could make all men healthy and rich (if he could make wine out of water, he could make all men rich) he should have done it instead of teaching men how to be blessed without health and riches. Those who accept the miracles, accept them only because they do not want to accept the teaching. 2) The divinity of Christ? The chief meaning of the definition of God is that He is a being different from man, above him and therefore if I say that man is God, I say a contradiction, just as if I said: spirit (the definition of which is something that is not matter) — spirit is matter. Christ being God is a belief that can be kept only by people who do not want to accept his teaching. If Christ is man the chief purport of his advent is his teaching and if I accept Christ as teacher I must follow his doctrine, but if he is God his teaching is only a little part of his significance. The chief thing is the story of his relation to the Father, the punishement of innocent people, the atonement, the sacrements, the church, the pope and so on, but not his teaching which cannot be accepted by the clergy, because it destroys at once their position and shows that their vocation is only a pretence to feed at the cost of the people. 3) About personal immortality? I think that in this life internal experience shows us that the less we live...
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Часть текста: of Miss Holah and others about Mr Tchertkoff. My opinion of him is formed and can not change. It is founded on something much more strong than friendship. My opinion, I am sorry to say it, is formed also on the present state of mind of Mr Kenworthy. His last letter in which he writes: „You have promised me your books to publish including the last story «Resurrection»”, which assertion has not the shadow of truth, and his silly — to say the best of it — accusation of Tchertkoff of which he has not the shadow of a reason, or of a proof, or of a right — have convinced me that he is not himself. Therefore I would be very much obliged to you if you could persuade him not to write to me any more about this matter. I am very sorry for him and especially for the impossibility in which I am to help him and to have any intercourse with him while he remains in the present unaccountable state of mind. Please excuse me if the contents of this letter will be desagreable to you. I could not help it. Yours truly, Leo Tolstoy. 12 August 1900. Дорогая мисс Пикард, Мне совершенно неинтересно знать мнение мисс Хола и других о Черткове. Мое мнение о нем составлено и не может измениться. Оно основано на чем-то более сильном, нежели дружба. Мое мнение, должен, к сожалению, сказать, сложилось также и о теперешнем состоянии ума г. Кенворти. Его последнее письмо, в котором он пишет: „Вы обещали мне ваши книги для издания, включая последнюю повесть «Воскресение»” — утверждение, не имеющее и тени правды — и его глупое, в лучшем случае, обвинение Черткова, на что он не имеет ни малейших оснований, доказательств и права, всё это убедило меня, что он не в себе. Поэтому я буду вам весьма обязан, если вы сможете убедить его не писать мне больше об этом деле. Мне его очень жаль и в особенности потому, что я не в состоянии ему помочь и сноситься с ним, пока он находится в...
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Часть текста: Толстой Л. Н. - Вильяму Стеду (William Т. Stead), 4 - 5 января 1903 г. 2. Вильяму Стеду (William Т. Stead). 1903 г. Января 4—5? Я. П. Verses 21 especially 24 clearly affirm impossibility enter kingdom without giving up possesions. Only Christian ministers who always enterprete Gospel accordingly abiect state of society can give these verses another meaning. Leo Tolstoy. Стихи 21 и в особенности 24 определенно утверждают невозможность войти в царство небесное, не отказавшись от собственности. Только христианские священники, всегда истолковывающие евангелие сообразно низменному состоянию общества, могут придавать этим стихам иной смысл. Лев Толстой. Примечания Печатается по машинописной копии. Телеграмма. Опубликована во многих иностранных газетах. Датируется по дню получения телеграммы Стеда. Сохранились копии двух черновиков телеграмм. О Вильяме Стеде (1849—1911) см. т. 64, стр. 216. Ответ на телеграмму Стеда, полученную в Ясной Поляне 4 января 1903 г. (перевод с английского): «Крупнейший американский миллионер [Джон Рокфеллер], поддерживаемый христианским духовенством, утверждает, что указание Христа юноше, чтобы он продал все и роздал деньги бедным, не следует толковать буквально... Будьте добры телеграфировать ваше толкование слов Христа».