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Часть текста: thoughts and desires, for if thou dost, thou wilt be dragged through the rough wilderness of life, which is not of Me. Whenever thou feelest that thy feet are becoming entangled in the interlaced roots of life, know then that thou hast strayed from the path to which I beckon thee, for I have placed thee in broad smooth paths which are strewn with flowers. I have put a light before thee, which thou can’st follow and thus run without stumbling. Krishna P. 212. I received your letter and the two issues of the magazine. Both were intensely interesting to me; indeed, the oppression of a majority by the minority of a people and the corruption which flows from it, is a phenomenon which has always occupied my mind and at present is entirely occupying my attention. I will endeavour to convey to you what I think, both in a particular and a general way, about those causes from which those dreadful calamities have arisen and do arise, of which you write in your letter and which are also mentioned in the two numbers of the Hindoo magazine you sent me. The causes, owing to which this astonishing spectacle arises, of the majority of the labouring classes submitting to a mere handful of idlers whom it permits to dispose not only of its labour but also of its very life, are always and everywhere the same; whether the oppressors and the oppressed belong to the same, or, as is the case in India and in other countries, where the dominant class belongs to an...

2. Толстой Л. Н. - Макдональду Александру (Alexander Macdonald), 26 июля 1895 г.

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Часть текста: I can. 1) I have got nothing against the usual assembling of people confessing the Christian doctrine on Sundays in halls that they call churches. But I think, that these assemblies ought not to be devoted, as they usually are, to public and uniform public prayers, firstly, because the repetition on Sunday in the same words is perfectly useless, as it very soon becomes a mechanical procedure; secondly and chiefly, because in the Gospels this error is plainly pointed out and it is there definitely said (Math. VI), that one should not pray in public places, but in solitude, which is corroborated both by the reason and the experience of every man, who has ever sincerely prayed to God, as the assembly of people only distracts, makes one’s thoughts wander and diverts them. I think that Sunday rest and dedication of this day to spiritual exercise may take place in the most various forms. One may suggest, that men of the same spirit, meeting together on Sunday, should bring to their meeting such religious books or articles which they find in ancient and modern literature and read and discuss them together; one may suggest, that meeting together on Sunday men of the same spirit should arrange dinners for the poor and themselves serve those dinners; one may suggest, that...

3. Толстой Л. Н. - Гибсону Дж. (G. Gibson), 11 марта 1898 г.

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Часть текста: himself from these contradictions. But this is an illusion. Every community is a small island in the mist of an ocean of unchristian conditions of life, so that the christian relations exist only between members of the colony but outside that must remain unchristian, otherwise the colony would not exist for a moment. And therefore to live in community cannot save a christian from the contradiction between his conscience and his life. I do not mean to say that I do not approve of communities such as your commonwealth, or that I do not think them to be a good thing. On the contrary, I approve of them with all my heart and am very interested in your commonwealth and wish it the greatest success. I think that every man who can free himself from the conditions of wordly life without breaking the ties of love — love the main principle in the name of which he seeks new forms of life — I think such a man not only must, but naturally join people who have the same beliefs and who try to live up to them. If I were free I would immediately even at my age join such a colony. I only wished to say that the mere forming of communities is not a solution for the christian problem, but is only one of the means of its solution. The revolution that is going on for the attainment of the christian ideal is so enormous, our life is so different from what it ought to be, that for the perfect success of this revolution, for the concordance of conscience and life, is needed the work of all men — men living in communities as well as men of the world...

4. Толстой Л. Н. - Бонду Кеннет (Kenneth Bond), 2 марта 1897 г.

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Часть текста: г. Марта 2. Никольское. Dear Sir, You are asking me a question which I am trying to solve those 20 last years. When we for the first time understand what true Christian life should be and how far from this Christian life is the life that we are living, it seems to us so natural and so easy to abandon the false wordly life and [lead] the true, happy one, that we arе astonished of finding hindrances to this change and ascribe generally those hindrances to our exclusive position. But in this we are mistaken. We think that our Christian life will begin when wе will be free from our wordly ties, but it begins when we are trying to undo those ties, and this undoing them in a Christian fashion without acting contrary to the principle in the name of which wo are chan ging our life, i. e. the love and the absence of violence is the main thing for a Christian. So that I think that a Christian, — and you in your case — must not try to show to others what true life is, but to make in his soul the internal change, which will bring you not in the position, that you imagine yourself you must occupy, but which will be the necessary result of your internal change. When the seventy came back to Christ and said to him, that the devils obeyed them, he answered: don’t be...

5. Толстой Л. Н. - Рамазесхану А. (A. Ramaseshan), 25 июля 1901 г.

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Часть текста: of the social problem for reasonable beings endowed with the capacity of love is the abolition of violence and the organization of society based on mutual love and reasonable principles, voluntarily accepted by all. Such a state can be attained only by the development of true religion. By the words «true religion» I mean the fundamental principles of all religions which are 1) the consciousness of the divine essence of human soul and 2) respect for its manifestation — human life. Your religion is very old and very profound in its metaphysical definition of the relation of man to the spiritual All — the Atman; but I think it was maimed in its moral, i. e. practical application to life; by the existence of caste. This practical application to life, so far as I know, has been made only by Jainism, 1 Buddhism and some of your sects, such as Kabir Panchis 2 in which the fundamental principle is the sacredness of life and consequently the prohibition to take the life of any living being, especially of man. All the evils that you experience — the famine and chat is still more important, the depravement of your people by factory life — will last as long as your people consent to kill their fellowmen and to be soldiers (Sepoys). Parasites feed only on unclean bodies. Your people must try to be morally clean and in so far as ...

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Часть текста: условиях относительной стабильности и классового мира, отличных от раздираемой политическими страстями Франции. Неудивительно, что оценка позднего творчества Толстого и его романа в английской критике была менее ”политизирована”. Прогрессивные английские журналисты и общественные деятели реже, чем французские, пытались опереться на Толстого как вдохновителя социальной борьбы за лучшее будущее. Консервативные литераторы, неудовлетворенные романом, тем не менее, в уважительном тоне писали о Толстом и его творчестве. В то же время в Англии восприятие и оценка ”Воскресения” проходили в условиях резкого размежевания писателей и критиков. С одной стороны, на рубеже веков еще были живы традиции старой викторианской литературы. С другой — уже в 90-е годы назревал протест против приукрашивания ею действительности. В эти годы многие английские писатели — Бернард Шоу и Самуэль Батлер, Томас Гарди и Вильям Моррисон, Джон Голсуорси, Оскар Уайльд и др. — подвергали критике разные стороны жизни общества, обнажали противоречия между ханжеской моралью респектабельных граждан и их поступками. Неудивительно, что большинством прогрессивных литераторов ”Воскресение” было принято с восхищением как вдохновляющий пример бесстрашной правды в литературе. По мнению пропагандиста русской литературы Эдварда Гарнета, для англичан в романе Толстого оказалась особенно животрепещущей тема ”срывания масок”. «В наше время англосаксонский мир (Англия и Америка), — писал он Толстому, — довел лицемерие до тончайшего искусства, и жизнь этих народов — политическая, общественная и нравственная — вся основана исключительно на подавлении всякой правды,...

7. Маковицкий Д. П.: "Яснополянские записки". Личные имена и названия. Страница 4

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Часть текста: — II 315, 647 «Мечта и жизнь» — II 315, 647 Йоцова Т. (род. в 1887 г.), корресп. Т-го из Болгарии — IV 76, 77, 441 К «К истории декабристов», сб. статей С. Лунина и Н. Муравьева — II 391 Кабак, сектант-штундист; посетитель Т-го — I 411, 413 Кавелин (псевд. — Леонид) Лев Александрович (1822—1891), архимандрит, наместник Троицко-Сергиевой лавры, историк и археолог — I 517 «Историческое описание Козельской Введенской Оптиной Пустыни» — I 308, 517 Кавеньяк (Cavaignac) Луи Эжен (1802—1857), франц. ген. и реакц. полит. деятель, имя которого после кровавого подавления им рабочего восстания в Париже в июне 1848 г. стало нарицательным для обозначения воен. диктатуры — I 360, 367, 396, 460; II 220 «Кавказский сборник» — IV 145 Кавос-Дехтерева Софья Цезаревна, писательница и обществ. деятельница — III 285, 491 Казадезюс (Casadesus) Анри Гюстав (1879—1947), франц. альтист; в 1901 г. основал в Париже «Общество старинных инструментов» и возглавил камерный ансамбль; посетитель, корресп. и адресат Т-го — IV 106—109, 114 Казадезюс (Casadesus) Марсель (1882—1914), франц. музыкант, член «Общества старинных инструментов», солист камерного ансамбля — IV 106—109, 114 Казаков Иван Семенович (род. в 1873 г.), художник — III 54 Казаков Сергей, сектант-«бессмертник» из крестьян; моск. корресп. и адресат Т-го — III 25, 154, 288, 461 , 475 , 476 , 492 Казаков Фрол Ф., корресп. Т-го из Макеевки — IV 10, 435 Казанцев Василий,...

8. Толстой Л. Н. - Редферну Перси (Percy Redfern), 23 февраля 1903 г.

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Часть текста: 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 not to form them accordingly. But deeds you can do quite unknown to men only for God. And such deeds are the greatest joy that a man can experience. As to his plan to live amongst prostitutes and tramps... I can not say that I approuve of it. Rather not. I think that to change own’s habitual life for such a one a man must [be] quite sure to be proof against the new temptations that will assail him in this new life. This refers also to your doubts about your life. I think that the changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than accordingly to the demands of our conscience but not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life. I was glad to hear all what you write about your society 1 and yourself and thank you for your letter. Your friend Leo Tolstoy. Дорогой Перси Редферн, Я думаю, что ваш друг, который против книг и чтения, вполне прав. Лао-Тзе говорит: истинные слова не бывают приятны, приятные слова не бывают истинны. Мудрые не бывают учены, ученые не бывают мудры! Брамины говорят, что в их книгах много предсказаний о временах, когда пойдут дожди. Но жмите эти книги так сильно, как только можете, и всё же вы не выдавите оттуда ни одной капли воды. И точно так же вы не можете добыть даже малейшего доброго дела из всех книг, которые содержат наилучшие поучения. Рёскин говорит, что наилучшие люди, сделавшие более всего добра для человечества, это те, о которых мы ничего не знаем. Разница между делами и словами та, что слова всегда предназначаются для людей, ради их одобрения, тогда как добрые дела делаются только для бога. Хотя и возможно произносить слова с...

9. Толстой Л. Н. - Блэку А. (A. Blake), 12 ноября 1888 г.

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Часть текста: life is miserable and sinful, and that it could he blissful and holy. And that for to attain this end we have only to shake off the ancient imposture in which we now live. Do you know the writings of Matthew Arnold? His «Literature and Dogma», Parker’s discourse on religious subjects, Garrison’s «Non-resistance» and his «declaration of sentiments»? All this and many others is the same that you and I speak and write of, viz. that Christ gave us a programme of life as an architect would have given the plan of a building and a deceiver would have stolen the plan and put a false one in it’s stead, to compromise the architect. I think that many people over the world are begining to get aware that they are Labouring under a mistake and turn to the true teaching of Christ. I think that the hour is coming, but that we must remember the words said by Christ to his disciples. «Be ye therefore wise as serpentes, and harmless as doves». We must remember that every fault of ours destroys God’s work. And therefore according to your wish I do the following comments upon your book. The faults in your book are: 1) That you affirm the dogmas of creation, redemption, resurrection and of the reality of hell and eternal torments. This affirmation cannot be proved, and cannot help to lead a Christian life and must be repulsive to reasonable people. 2) That you admit divorce, which Christ most peremptorily prohibited. Divorce cannot be admitted because it cannot be left to the will of every man to decide when he...

10. Толстой Л. Н. - Кэмпбеллу Гамильтону (Hamilton Camp[bell]), 27 января (6 февраля) 1891 г.

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Часть текста: the miraculous element in the gospel narratives? I think that to accept or to believe the miracles of the gospel is a complete impossibility for a sane person in our times. We cannot believe the miracles not because we wish, or we do not wish to believe in them, but because such narratives, having a certain meaning for people of the 4-th century, have 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...

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