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Часть текста: people have never recognised landed property, this infamous action is particularly loathsome on the part of a stupid and coarse government which is endeavouring not only to retain the slaves in their servitude, but also by depraving the people to intensify their slavery in the future. I regard as stupid the action of our present government, because if it had put into practice Henry Georgeis principle that land cannot become exclusive property, — a principle always recognised and still recognised by the great mass of the Russian peasantry, — this measure alone, more effectually than all the acts of violence and cruelty now being accomplished by the government, would have pacified the people, and rendered impossible the codtinuation of the revolution. Whereas the Russian government has had recourse to a measure pricisely contrary to such an one by encouraging in every way the transference of the land from communal ownership to private individual ownership. 1 In this I see the government's astounding stupidity. Whilst in those measures which the government applies for the repression of the dissafection amongst the people naturally flowing from their want in land, is manifested the government’s astounding cruelty. Therefore the activity of the Single-Tax League organised in England is especially gladdening. Henry...
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Часть текста: of what we are striving at, but are not ready for, and therefore being satisfied with the semblance of that, which should be. Compulsory governement organization is indeed nought else, than the semblance of good order, which is maintained by prisons, gallows, police, army and workhouses. Of real order there is none; only, that which infringes, it is hidden from our view in prisons, penal settlements and slums. And I think, that the dicease remains so long uncured, because it is concealed. So likewise with brotherhood or church communities. They also are semblances. There cannot be a community of saints among sinners. I think, that the members of a community in order to keep the semblance of sainthood must necessarily commit many new sins. We are so created, that we cannot become perfect either one by one, or in groups, but (from the very nature of the case) only all together. The warmth of any drop (or particle) is transmitted to all the others. And were it possible to conserve the heat of one particle, so that it should not pass to the others and therefore did not cool — it would only prove, that we took for heat, was not true heat. And I therefore think, that were our friends to direct towards their inner spiritual growth all the portion of attention and energy, which they devote to the sustainement of the outer form of a community amongst themselves — it would be better both for them and for God’s cause. Communities and external organisations seem to me to be lawful and useful only, when they are inevitable consequences of a corresponding inner state. For instance, if two men, from a calculation, that it is more profitable to live in one house and eat one dinner, were to say to each other: «let us live in one house and eat one...
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Часть текста: Bryan I greatly respect and sympathise with, and know that the basis of his activity is kindred to mine in his sympathy with the interests of the working masses, his antimilitarism and his recognition of the fallacies produced by capitalism. I do not know, but hope Mr. Bryan will stand for land reform according to the Single Tax system of Henry George, which I regard as being at the present time, of the most insistent necessity, and which every progressive reformer should place to the fore. Yours faithfully Leo Tolstoy. 28 сент. 08. Уважаемый г. Райерсон Дженингс, В ответ на ваше письмо от 24 августа выражаю искреннее пожелание успеха кандидатуре г. Брайана в президенты Соединенных Штатов. С моей точки зрения, т. е. поскольку я вообще не признаю никакого государства, основанного на насилии, я не могу оправдывать функций президента республики, но, поскольку эти функции еще существуют, безусловно желательно, чтобы они выполнялись людьми, заслуживающими доверия. Я отношусь с большим уважением и симпатией к г. Брайану и знаю, что принципы, на которых основана его деятельность, совпадают с моими в отношении сочувствия к трудящимся массам, антимилитаризму и признанию зол, приносимых капитализмом. Мне еще не известно, но я надеюсь, что г. Брайан будет сторонником земельной реформы в духе Генри Джорджа и его системы единого налога, проведение которой я считаю в настоящее время делом совершенно необходимым и которое каждый передовой реформатор должен иметь прежде всего в виду. Преданный вам Лев Толстой. Примечания Перепечатывается из книги: Aylmer Maude, «The Life of Tolstoy. Later Years», London, Constable and C°, 1911, стр. 638. Дата Толстого, вероятно, нового стиля. Райерсон Дженингс писал Толстому из Филадельфии. Письмо его в архиве не найдено. Биографических сведений о нем редакция не имеет. О Вильяме Дженингсе Брайане (1860—1925) см. тт. 74 и 75. Реакционный политический деятель, он три раза (1896—1908) выставлялся...
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Часть текста: your contributors, can and will help me in this matter by corresponding with me on the subject, I will be very thankful. With full esteem your friend, Leo Tolstoy. P. S. With the same mail I send you some of my books, which will, I hope, be of interest to you. 21 окт./3 ноябр. 1909. Милостивый государь, Очень благодарю вас за «Vedic Magazine», который вы были так добры мне прислать. Я всегда читаю его с большим интересом. В последнем полученном мною номере, том III, № 4, я очень оценил статью Пандит Прабу Дут Шастри М. А. Б. Т. «Платон и Шанкарачариа». Вы сделали бы мне большую любезность, если бы согласились помочь в одной недавно начатой мною работе, которая, надеюсь, может представить для вас некоторый интерес. Я начал составлять серию книг с изложением всех больших мировых религий, 1 сущность которых во всех религиях всегда одна и та же. Вполне естественно, что религия Вед, как одна из самых древних и глубоких, должна занять в этой серии первое место. Я хочу сделать выбор наиболее ярких и глубоких изречений из религии Вед. Если вы или кто-нибудь из ваших сотрудников сможете мне в этом помочь, переписываясь со мною на эту тему, я буду очень благодарен. С полным уважением ваш друг Лев Толстой. P. S. С этой же почтой посылаю вам несколько моих книг, в надежде, что они вас заинтересуют. Примечания Печатается по машинописной копии. Опубликовано в переводе на немецкий язык в книге «Tolstoi und der Orient», стр. 68—69. Рама Дева — профессор, редактор журнала...
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Часть текста: сhristian faith, and therefore the organization of communities seems to such a man the only means of delivering 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 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...
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Часть текста: 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...