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Часть текста: in him. 1 Ep. John. Chap. 4. God is one Whole; we are the parts. Exposition of the teaching of the Veddas by Vivekananda. I Do not seek rest in that plane where the earthly gives birth to 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 entirely different nation from those oppressed. It appears especially strange of India, for here we have a people of 200 millions of individuals, highly endowed with spiritual and physical powers, in absolute subjection to a small clique, composed of persons utterly alien...

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Часть текста: 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 meeting together men of the same spirit should confess their sins to each other and discuss them. In short one can think of a hundred different forms of worship, which should all have for their aim a mutual spiritual help and should not be mechanical, but sensible. 2) Do I believe in the resurrection and that there is a hereafter? I believe in true, i. e. indestructible life which Christ has disclosed to us and for the which death does not exist. But this life should in no-wise be understood as a resurrection to future life, as a hereafter. One cannot be too cautious in the use of terms for the definition of the true, indestructible, eternal life. If we were to say, that it will be a personal life, that we shall pass into other bodies or beings, as the Buddhists understand it in their metam-psychosis, we should be making a gratuitous assertion. If, on the other hand, we were to assert, that death destroys all that which composes our «ego», it would be a yet more gratuitous ...

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Часть текста: 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 living in the most different conditions. This ideal is not so quickly and so simply attained, as we think and wish it. This ideal will be attained only when every man in the whole world will say: Why should I sell my services and buy yours? If mine are greater than yours I owe them to you, because if there is in the whole world one man who does not think and act by this principle, and who, will take and keep by violence, what he can take from others, no man can live a...

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Часть текста: Н. - Изо-Абэ (Iso-Abé), 23 октября (5 ноября) 1904 г. 251. Изо-Абэ (Iso-Abé). 1904 г. Октября 23/ноября 5. Я. П . 23/5 October Toula. Jasnaya Poliana. Dear friend Iso Abé, It was a great pleasure for me to receive your letter and your paper 1 with the english article. 2 I thank you heartily for both. Though I never doubted that there are in Japan a great many reasonable, moral and religious men, who are opposed to the horrible crime of war which is now perpetrated by both betrayed and stupified nations, I was very glad to get the proof of it. It is a great joy for me to know that I have friends and coworkers in Japan with which I can be in friendly intercourse. Wishing to be quite sincere with you, as I wish to be with every esteemed friend, I must tell you that I do not approuve of socialism and am sorry to know that the most spiritually advanced part of your, so clever and energetic people, has taken from Europe the very feeble, illusory and fallacious theory of socialism, which in Europe is beginning to be abandoned. Socialism has for its aim the satisfaction of the meanest part of human nature: his material wellbeing and by the means it proposes can never attain them. The true wellbeing of humanity is spiritual i. e. moral and includes the material wellbeing. And this higher goal can be attained only by religious i. e. moral perfection of all the unites which compose nations and humanity. By religion I understand the reasonable belief in a (general for all humanity) law of God which practically is exposed in the precept of loving every man and doing to everybody what one wishes to be done to you. I know that this method seemes to be less expedient than socialism and other frail theories, but it is the sole true one. And all the efforts we use in trying to realize false and not reaching their aims theories only hinder us to employ the sole true means to attain the degree of happiness of mankind and of...

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Часть текста: не в тех размерах, как в прошлом. В этом году мы имеем свыше 90 столовых (кухонь). Наши средства не столь обильны, как были в прошлом году. Тем более что мы превысили наш бюджет, так как нужда в топливе оказалась сильнее, нежели мы ожидали. Поэтому всё посланное американским жертвователями для наших голодающих крестьян будет принято с благодарностью. Примечания Печатается по черновику, написанному T. Л. Толстой на нижней половине четвертой страницы письма А. А. Бобринского к Толстому от 2 февраля 1893 г. (см. ниже). Датируется на основании упоминания об этом письме в письме Толстого к жене (см. т. 84, стр. 185 и 186). Ответ на письмо консула Соединенных Штатов Северной Америки Крауфорда из Петербурга от 4/16 февраля 1893 г., который спрашивал, продолжает ли Толстой помогать крестьянам, ощущается ли нужда в эту зиму и нуждается ли Толстой в деньгах. О том же запрашивал Толстого в письме от 2 февраля секретарь Американского комитета помощи голодающим А. А. Бобринский (р. 1859). Ответного письма Крауфорда не сохранилось. Бобринский в письме от 17 февраля сообщал: «Благотворительный комитет при ...

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Часть текста: Dear Sir. I have seldom experienced so much gratification as I had in reading Mr. Ballou’s 1 treatise and tracts. I cannot agree with your opinion that Mr. Ballou «will not go down to posterity among the immortals...» I think that because he has been one of the first true apostles of the «New Time» — he will be in the future acknowledged as one of the chief benefactors of humanity. If, in his long and seemingly unsuccessful career, Mr. Ballou has experienced moments of depression in thinking that his efforts have been vain; he has only partaken of the fate of his and our Master. Tell him please, that his efforts have not been vain, they give great strength to people, as I can judge from myself. In those tracts I found all the objections that are generally made against «non-resistance» victoriously answered and also the true basis of the doctrine. I will endeavor to translate and propagate as much as I can, the works of Mr. Ballou, and I not only hope, but am convinced, that the time is come, «when the dead hear the voice of the Son of god; and they that hear shall live». The only comments that I wish to make on Mr. Ballou’s explanation of the doctrine, are, firstly, that I cannot agree with the concession that he makes for employing violence against drunkards and insane people, the Master made no concessions, and we can make none. We must try, as Mr. Ballou putsit, to mave impossible the existence of such persons, but if they are — we must use all possible means, sacrifice ourselves, but not employ violence. A true Christian will always prefer to be killed by a madman rather than to deprive him of his liberty. Secondly, that Mr. Ballou does not decide more categorically the question of property , for a true Christian not only cannot claim any rights of property,...

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Часть текста: статью всю до конца около 15 февр[аля] ст[арого] стиля. Так что можно успеть, я думаю, одновременно выпустить и в Англии. Теперь ответы на ваше последнее письмо: 1) Мелодрама — драма с музыкой. 1 2) Rossini, leitmotiv — верно. 2 3) Ваше замечание об употреблении слова: красивый — совершенно верно, и потому я думаю лучше слова, стоящие в скобках, — выпустить. 3 4) Separation of the membranes — верно, но для разрыва надо бы более сильное слово, чем separation. 4 5) Есть Manet и Е. Monnet, и оба нужны. 5 6) Я думаю, что wilder — хорошо, а может быть: worser. 6 7) Гаммы и экзерсисы — верно. 7 8) О Бодлере только выпустить слово: кто . 8 9) Пошлю вам выписку из предисловия к Ragnar Redbeard’y в след[ующем] письме. 9 10) XVIII,стр. 8 перевод верен. Только слово matured не заменить ли другим? 10 11) greater part или great part — всё равно. 11 12) abomination и filthy op[eras] — верно. 12 13) Под христианскими учителями я разумею церковных хрис[тианских] учителей, и потому лучше прибавить слово церковные. 13 Вот всё. — Продолжаю быть вам несказанно благодарным и бояться за то, что вам работа эта очень надоела. Не отвечайте на это. Дружески жму вам руку. Привет вашей жене. 14 Примечания Печатается по фотокопии (конец письма в копии не воспроизведен). Отрывок письма впервые опубликован в книге: «Aylmer Maude. The Life of Tolstoy», II, London 1910, стр. 538. Датируется на основании письма Моода от 2 февраля нов. ст., на которое отвечает Толстой. 1 Вопрос Моода: «Гл. XIII. «Мелодрама»—употребляете ли вы это название в его действительном...

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Часть текста: июля 1894 г. 179. Джону Моррисону Давидсону (John Morrison Davidson). 1894 г. Июля 23—24? Я. П. Dear Sir, I got your two books and thank you heartily for them. It is the greatest joy of my life to know persons such as you and to see, that the ideas, which I live for, are likewise the mainspring of life unto others and are expressed in such beautiful and vigourous style, as I had occasion to notice in your two books. Both your books are remarkably good and I cannot give preference to either of them. In the «Old order and the New» the Christian truth serves to corroborate the truth of the Socialistic tendencies; whereas in the «Gospel of the Poor» it is the Socialistic, Communistic and Anarchistic theories that serve to corroborate the Christian truth, which occupies the most prominent part. Though while there is a censorship in Russia, the publishing of these books is out of the question, yet I shall get some of my friends to translate them, and will then spread them. The ennemies of the Kingdom of God have but one means left them it is to hush up the truth and make believe, they neither hear nor comprehend it — the fact of which was so...

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Часть текста: but I am sorry that they are for the most part polemic against the Churches. I don’t say that they are not convincing, but I think that they are useless. I read also «The teachings of the promised Messiah». It is quite true that they don’t contain anything quite against reason but I have not found in them anything now or expressed better than it was expressed before. I quite agree with you that the greatest evil of our time is the absence of true religion, and I think that every person which has in itself a religious feeling must try to communicate it to his neighbours by all means, especially by a good life. And that is all what we want and therefore ought to do in our time. Yours truly Leo Tolstoy. 23 August 1903. Муфти Мухамеду Садигу. Милостивый государь, Я получил ваше письмо и 12-й номер «Review of Religions» и благодарю вас за то и другое. Многие статьи очень интересны, но мне жаль, что они большей частью посвящены полемике с церковью. Не скажу, чтобы они были не убедительны, но думаю, что они бесполезны. Прочел также «Поучения обещанного мессии». Совершенно верно, что они не содержат ничего противоречащего разуму, но я и не нашел в них чего-либо нового или выраженного лучше, чем это было сделано раньше. Вполне согласен с вами, что самое большое зло нашего времени — это отсутствие истинной религии, и думаю, что всякий человек, у которого есть религиозное сознание, должен всеми средствами, в особенности хорошей жизнью, стараться передавать его своим ближним. Вот всё, что нам нужно и что поэтому нам следует делать в наше время. Искренно ваш Лев Толстой. 23 августа 1903. Примечания Печатается по...

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Часть текста: Welsh). 1902 г. Декабря 2/15. Я. П. Mr Herbert Welsh. Dear Sir, I received your letter, book and pamphlets. 1 I can not help to admire your activity, but the crimes which have been committed in the Philippines are special cases, which by my opinion, will allways occur in states governed by violence or in which violence is admitted as necessary and lawfull. Violence, which in itself is a crime, can not be used to a certain extent. When it is admitted it will allways transgress the limits which we would put to it. Deeds as those than have been done in the Philippines, in China and are daily done in all pseudochristian states will continue till humanity will accept violence as a means to produce good results and will not accept the chief precepts of Christianity — to act on our brethern not as on animals by violence, but by sweet reasonableness (as Mat[t]h[ew] Arnold 2 termed it) which is the only way to act thoroughly and durably on reasonable beings. Hoping that my bad English will not hinder you to understand what I mean to say, I remain, dear Sir, yours truly Leo Tolstoy. 15 Dec. 1902. Г. Герберту Уелшу. Милостивый государь, Я получил ваше письмо, книгу и брошюры. 1 Не могу не любоваться вашей деятельностью, но преступления, совершенные на Филиппинах, именно такие, какие, по моему мнению, всегда будут происходить в государствах, управляемых посредством насилия, или в которых насилие допускается и употребляется как необходимое и законное средство. Насилие, которое само по себе преступление, нельзя употреблять только до известного предела. Если только допустить насилие, оно всегда перейдет границы, которые мы хотели бы установить для него. Деяния, подобные совершенным на Филиппинах, в Китае и совершаемые ежедневно во всех псевдохристианских государствах, будут продолжаться до тех пор, пока человечество будет считать насилие средством достижения хороших результатов и не примет главного предписания христианства — поступать ...

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