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Часть текста: 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 in thought and aspiration and altogether inferior to those whom they enslave. These causes, as one can easily see from your letter, from the articles in «Free Hindustan», from the highly interesting writings of the Hindoo Swami Vivekananda and others, are in accord with that which causes the distress of all the peoples of our time; in the absence of a rational religious teaching which, while elucidating the meaning of life to the people in an equal way, would also ...

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

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Часть текста: Л. Н. - Рамазесхану А. (A. Ramaseshan), 25 июля 1901 г. 120. А. Рамазесхану (A. Ramaseshan). 1901 г. Июля 25. Я. П . Dear Sir, I thank you for your very interesting letter. I quite agree with you that your nation cannot accept the solution of the social problem which is proposed by Europe and which is no solution at all. A society or community kept together by force is not only in a provisory state, but in a very dangerous one. The bonds that keep together such a society are always in danger of being broken and the society itself — liable to experience the greatest evils. In such a position are all the European states. The only solution 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...

3. Толстой Л. Н. - Баллу Адину (Adin Ballou), 21 (24) февраля 1890 г.

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Часть текста: inevitable in practice, cannot be admitted in theory. What I mean is this: Man never attains perfection but only approaches it. As it is impossible to trace in reality a mathematically straight line and as every such line is only an approach to the latter, so is every degree of perfection attainable by man — only an approach to the perfection of the Father, which Christ showed us the way to emulate. Therefore, in reality, every deed of the best man and his whole life will be always only a practical compromise — a resultant between his feebleness and his striving to attain perfection. And such a compromise in practice is not a sin, but a necessary condition of every Christian life. The great sin is the compromise in theory, is the plan to lower the ideal of Christ in view to make it attainable. And I consider the admission of force (be it even benevolent) over a madman (the great difficulty is to give a strict definition of a madman) to be such a theoretical compromise. In not admitting this compromise I run the risk...

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

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Часть текста: number is very good and I liked all the articles in it. It is quite true, as you say it in your article «The Social Need » 1 , and Herron 2 in his, that a Christian life is quite impossible in the present unchristian organization of society. The contradictions between his surroundings and his convictions are very painful for a man who is sincere in his 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...

5. Толстой Л. Н. - Гому В. (W. Gum), 17 октября 1897 г.

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Часть текста: friends and myself. As to the question you put to me I can add very little to the subject to what is stated in the book you vahe read. You are right in coming to the conclusion that we do not attach importance to dogmas such as the Evangelical conception of Atonement. But I think there is no need to be anxious on that account for such people as the Spirit Wrestlers. However different be our individual relation to such metaphysical conceptions as this one of the Atonement we cannot but agree that God is Love and Justice and that therefore if those who are trying to serve Him sincerely and to the best of their ability are not all able to understand such abstract questions alike, he cannot demand of them faith in that which they are not able to accept. Sincerity is enough for God. And the facts, you have become acquainted with in this book are, I think sufficient for dispelling any doubt as to the sincerity and faithfulness before their God of these people who are sacrificing their lives for what they believe to be His will. I think we would be discrediting our common God if we were each of us to attribute to Him insistance upon those theological tenets in which we differ between ourselves owing to our human limitations. Let us, while adhering, each one of us to the light wе have, be sufficiently tolerant and broad minded towards each others, to have confidence both in each others conscientiousness and in God’s power to enlighten and correct those deficiencies in faith we think we remark in...

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

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Часть текста: 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 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. ...

7. The hostelry (Гостиница)

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Часть текста: quantity of people. Having arranged all this the benefactor wrate very distingly a direction how to use his hostelry and all the thing that where gathered in it. This decretion the benefactor nailed on the entrance door so that every man should see it. In the direction it was writen that every man who entered the hostelry might stay in it as long as it was good for him and might eate and drink at his heart content and use all what was gathered in the inn clothes or boots or kind of provisions. The sole condition which was required from the travelers was that they schould take only what they needed presently and that they should help each other and leaving the hostelry made things tidy as before their arrival. Having arranged all this and written and hanged on the door this direction the benefactor himself retired. But it came to pass that when people came ent the hostelry they ded not look at the direction and began to use all the goods that where at their desposal without thinking of other people and triing to get all the thinges allthough not needed all everybody for himself.[26] They took began to quarrel between themselve over the goods. In snatching goods from each other spoiled them and sometime spoiled things aut of selfish spite in order that others schould not get them. So that havend spoiled everything in the inn, they began to sutler from cold and hunger, and from the injuries they themselves had inflicted on each other, and abused their host for having prepared too little goods, for not having placed caretakers, tor having allowed all sorts of bad men to enter. Others said that there egisted no anybody to abuse and that the hostelry had no master and had come into egistence (by itself) and that a bad damned place. In this same way behave in our world people who dos not read the direction of our life...

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

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Часть текста: 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 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...

9. Толстой Л. Н. - Баллу Адину (Adin Ballou), 30 июня 1890 г.

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Часть текста: convinced that the churches are and have always been the worst enemies of Christ’s work. They have always led humanity not in the way of Christ, but out of it. I think that all we can say and wish about church is to try to be a member of Christ’s church, but we never can define the church itself, its limits, and affirm, that we are members of the sole, true church. With true brotherly love and highest respect, I remain your friend and brother Leo Tolstoy. Дорогой друг и брат, я редко испытывал такое истинное и большое удовольствие, как при чтении вашего истинно братского и христианского письма. Очень благодарю вас за книги и брошюры, которые вы мне прислали. 1 Я получил их благополучно и некоторые из них прочел с большим удовольствием и пользой. Катехизис непротивляющихся я перевел и буду распространять его среди наших друзей. В нем замечательно хорошо изложены в такой сжатой форме главные истины нашей веры. Каково ваше отношение к декларации взглядов общества непротивления, основанного Гаррисоном? 2 Состояли вы его членом в то время? Я совершенно согласен с вами, что христианство никогда не войдет в свою обетованную землю, пока божественная истина принципа непротивления не получит признания. Но признана она будет не так называемой церковью. Я совершенно убежден, что церкви всегда были и остались злейшими врагами дела Христа. Они всегда вели...

10. Толстой Л. Н. - Грехему Уидену (Whidden Graham), 30 января (12 февраля) 1907 г.

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Часть текста: Толстой Л. Н. - Грехему Уидену (Whidden Graham), 30 января (12 февраля) 1907 г. 24. Уидену Грехему (Whidden Graham). 1907 г. Января 30/февраля 12. Я. П. Dear Sir, The death of Ernest Crosby is a very great sorrow for me. I realized the strength of my inner spiritual connection with him only when I got the news of his death. It is a great and very rare happiness to possess such a friend, of whom one can be sure that he understands you fully and whose leading innermost force of life is quite the same as your own. And excepting his great intelligence, talent and high morality, — such a man was Ernest Crosby for me. Yours truly Leo Tolstoy. Toula, Jasnaja Poliana. February 11-th 1907. Милостивый государь, Смерть Эрнеста Кросби для меня большое горе. Я только тогда осознал всю силу своего внутреннего духовного единения с ним, когда получил известие о его смерти. Это большое и очень редкое счастье иметь такого друга, в котором можно быть уверенным, что он вполне тебя понимает, и основная цель жизни которого та же, что и у тебя. Не говоря уже об его глубоком уме, таланте и высокой нравственности, — таким именно человеком был для меня Эрнест Кросби. Искренне ваш Лев Толстой. Тула, Ясная Поляна. Февраля 11-го 1907. Примечания Печатается по копировальной книге № 7, л. 254. Написано и датировано рукой Т. Л. Сухотиной, подпись собственноручная. Дата письма нового стиля ошибочна. Основание датировки: в копировальной книге письмо находится среди писем от 30 января/12 февраля. В ГМТ хранится черновик-автограф, текст которого почти не отличается от текста подлинника. Ответ на письмо Уидена Грехема из Нью-Йорка от 9 января н. ст. 1907 г. с сообщением о смерти Эрнеста Кросби. Корреспондент писал также о том, что предполагается устроить собрание памяти Кросби, для которого было бы в высшей степени важно получить от Толстого несколько слов, посвященных памяти умершего.

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