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Часть текста: 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...

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Часть текста: more joyful encouragement for me, than the receiving of such letters as yours. As for your questions, I will very gladly try to answer them as well as 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...

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Часть текста: 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: на ваши прекрасные и очень полезные для дела замечания. Я получил вчера второе письмо от 14 ноября. Буду отвечать на оба. Те пункты, о кот[орых] я не буду упоминать, пусть остаются такими, как вы их поправили. 1 1) Молод[ые] лакеи и мастеровые в 1-й главе относится не к опере вообще, а к тем шествиям и балетам, к[оторые] устраиваются в операх. 2 2) Вожделение означает и lust и covetousness, но преимущественно lust. 3) Folgeldt. 3 4) Прераф[аэлиты], декад[енты], символисты все вышли из одного направления. 4 5) Гл. V, стр. 5, лин[ейка] 2. «образов, выраженных словами» означает поэтическое искусство — не одними словами , но образами, выраженными словами. 5 6) Гаспар Гаузер 6 был молодой человек в 20-х или 30-х года[х] нашег[о] века в каком-то немецком княжестве, найденный в тюрьме, где он жил без сношений с людьми и был как дикий человек. Сведения о нем должны быть в каждом большом Энциклоп[едическом] лексиконе. 7) Пятую главу я послал вам с изменениями. Простите пожалуйста за это. 8) Императоров — почитаемых богами. 7 9) Виклиф, Гус. 8 10) Heretics — лучше. 9 11) О Богомилах ость русское сочинение Венгеров[а] 10 и должно быть во всякой истории церкви. 12) Гл. VI, стр. 8. Изменить так: вместо: к пониманию грубых греков, — к грубому пониманию первобытных греков. 11 13)...

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Часть текста: It is largely due, so far as Asiatics are concerned, to trade jealousy. The climax was reached three years ago, when a law passed specially apllicable to Asiatics 1 , which I and many others considered to be degrading and calculated to unman those to whom it was applicable. I felt that submission to a law of this nature, was inconsistent with the spirit of true religion. I and some of my friends were, and still are firm believers in the doctrine of nonresistance to evil. I had the privilege of studying your writings also, which left a deep impression on my mind. British Indians, before whom the position was fully explained, accepted the advice that we should not submit to the legislation, but that we should suffer imprisonment, or whatever other penalties the law may impose for its breach. The result has been that nearly one half of the Indian population, that was unable to stand the heat of the struggle to suffer the hardships of imprisonment, have withdrawn from the Transvaal rather than submit to a law which they have considered degrading. Of the other half, nearly 2,500 have for conscience’sake allowed themselves to be imprisoned — some as many as five time. The imprisonments have varied from four days to six months; in the majority of cases with hard labour. Many have been financially ruined. At present...

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Часть текста: не говорили и не писали. Ни один писатель, артист и общественный деятель при своей жизни не был славен в такой степени, как Толстой, во всех частях света. И невольно поднимается вопрос: поскольку подлинна эта слава? Поскольку искренне это признание? - вопрос горький, но неизбежный. Слава Толстого холодная, внешняя. С признанием связывается глубочайшее равнодушие. Да! Возмутительное равнодушие к тому, чем жил и мучился Толстой всю свою жизнь, каменное невнимание ко всем душевным стонам, ко всем искренним вздохам этого великого и слабого человека. "Вы считаете, что война необходима, - приводится в "Анне Карениной" изречение А. Karr'а 1 . - Прекрасно. Кто проповедует войну, - в особый передовой легион и на штурм в атаку, впереди всех!" Вы считаете, что Толстой велик и мудр, - можно сказать огромному большинству, т. е. сотням миллионов почитателей Толстого. - Прекрасно! Примите же за правду его заветы и поучения, - и на штурм в атаку против всего, чем вы живете, против всех устоев вашей жизни! Почитание Толстого в величайшей степени словесное, разговорное, бумажное. Три четверти тех, кто говорит о Толстом с одушевленным восторгом, - курит и пьет, т. е. совершенно игнорирует все толстовские мысли о пьянстве и курении. Девять из десяти считают глупой сентиментальностью все слова Толстого о воздержании и целомудрии. Девяносто из ста пренебрегают запретом иметь собственность и отбывать воинскую...

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Часть текста: which alone has the answer to those questions of life, that now face all men and call for a solution, which neither Buddhism nor Confucianism can give. All the great teachers of humanity have at all time preached the brotherhood of men, but it is Christianity alone, which points out the way, whereby this can be attained. You have translated my works, such as «the Kreuzer Sonata» etc., but I very much wish to make the Japanese public familiar with true Christianity, as I think its founder conceived it. This, as far as I could, I expounded in my book: «The kingdom of god is within you». I think, these books or, at least, an exposition of their contents might be of interest to the Japanese people and might show them, that Christianity is not a collection of miracle narratives, but a very srtict exposition of that idea of human life, which gives wise neither to despair, nor to indifference about ones conduct, but which leads to a most definite moral activity. I advised your ...

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Часть текста: as a practical one, such a truth, the acceptation of which would deliver men from their miseries and give them the greatest welfare; but, strange though it seems to say so nothing has so much hindered the spreading of the truth, as the too hasty desire to make others accept it. I have always been deeply affected by the seldom noticed words of Christ to his 70 disciples, when they returned from preaching and boasted of their success, saying that everywhere the devils were subject unto them: «In this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather, because your names are written in heaven». In other words: seek not exterior success visible to all men, do not count your proselytes, as do the churchmen & the salvation army, 1 but seek to be in the truth, never to deviate from it & success, thoough perhaps invisible to you, will follow, will certainly follow, because when a man is in the truth he will act and his action will inevitably have the most fruitful results, if even they will not be visible to him. The same is expressed in the words «Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness & all these things shall be added unto you»; & in the words: «Be ye wise as serpents, & harmless as doves». Truth in order to influence men should be complete, not clipped, not adapted to the life of men of the world. And this is always being forgotten by mankind. And owing to this the most powerful efforts have been and are yet lost in vain. Precious is not that community which we may organize at Toula or Croydon 3 with the help of those near to us in time and space, although such a community may also have its object & signification, but precious is that community of men of all times and nations, who unite in the one truth, in which I have been brought into communion with men, so distant from me in space & time, & amongst others with you. The community, which is...

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Часть текста: 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 they are clean from murder or readiness to do it they will be free from the regime under which they labour now. I quite agree with you thet you ought to be thankful for all that has been done by the English — for your well being — and should help them in all things tending to the civilization of your people; but you should not help...

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Часть текста: who I think specially influenced me. Others names are: Channing, 6 Whithier, 7 Lowell, 8 Walt Whitman 9 — a bright constallation, such as is rarely to be found in the literatures of the world. And I should like to ask the American people, why they do not pay more attention to these voices (hardly to be replaced by those of Gould, 10 Rockfeller 11 and Carnegie 12 ) and continue the good work in which they made such hopeful progress. My kind regards to your wife, and I take opportunity of once more thanking her for her excellent translation of «The Kingdom of God is within you». 13 Yours truly, Leo Tolstoy. Милостивый государь, Благодарю вас за ваше письмо от 6 июня. Когда я читал его, мне казалось невозможным послать какое-либо обращение к американскому народу. Но, обдумав это еще раз ночью, я почувствовал, что если бы мне пришлось обратиться к американскому народу, то я постарался бы выразить ему мою благодарность за ту большую помощь, которую я получил от его писателей, процветавших в пятидесятых годах. Я бы упомянул Гарисона, 1...

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