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Часть текста: teaching and that you intend to preach to your countrymen Christianity as it is presented in the Sermon on the Mount. That is a great purpose and I do not know a greater, to which a man could devote his life. But to be sincere with you I must say, that in your article, as well as in your letter, 2 I can see that you have not quite made up your mind which master you will serve: God or Mammon; will you try to obtain the personal, familial or national welfare, or try only to fulfil the will of God, making no difference between men and nations. You say, that you will try to do what you can to break down the walls of partition through sectarianism and different religious systems, and through ultra strong patriotism . You say the same usual patriotism in your article — as if there can be two kinds of patriotism — the one good, the other, the ultra strong, bad patriotism. To say that patriotism can be good, is a great delusion, and if you suppose, that any kind of patriotism can be good, you open the door to the greatest evils. Patriotism and Christianity are two opposite terms and can not be united. I have written an article in form of a letter to an English correspondent about this subject, 3 and if it interests you, you can read it in...

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

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Часть текста: 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 glad of your power over the devils, but try that your names should be written in Heaven. I think that you know all this better than I, and will excuse me for writing what may be superfluous to you. I write this because I have been in the same position in which you are and know the feeling of decouragement which came over you, when the change in my life did not come so as I expected. Therefore I advise you to work with all your energy for the Kingdom of God within you, without making determinated plans for your personal life. Your external position will be the result of the internal change. Do you know John Kenworthy and his church and his paper? 1 His adress is Croydon. I think you will find spiritual help in putting yourself in communication with him and his people. Lately there came into my neibourhood a friend of mine, a russian, V. Tchertkoff. I am sure he would ...

3. Толстой Л. Н. - Син-Джону Артуру (Arthur. St. John), 24 февраля 1900 г.

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Часть текста: Л. Н. - Син-Джону Артуру (Arthur. St. John), 24 февраля 1900 г. 251. Артуру Син-Джону (Arthur St. John). 1900 г. Февраля 24. Москва. Dear friend, I will try to have particulars about the prisoners in Vladikawkaz (I did not know anything about them) and will let you know, and also try to help them. Yours truly, L. Tolstoy. 24 Февр. Дорогой друг, Постараюсь получить сведения о заключенных во Владикавказе (я ничего не знал о них) и сообщу вам, а также постараюсь помочь им. Уважающий вас Л. Толстой. 24 Февр. Примечания Печатается по листу копировальной книги, хранящемуся в AЧ. Местонахождение автографа неизвестно. Рукой М. Л. Оболенской проставлена дата: «24 февраля» и рукой неизвестного ошибочно проставлен год «1897». Восстанавливаем согласно записи Дневника от 13 марта 1900 г. (см. т. 54) и по письму к начальнику Владикавказской тюрьмы от 12 марта 1900 г. (см. № 261). Публикуется впервые. Об Артуре Син-Джоне см. письмо 41. Ответ на письмо Син-Джона от 15 февраля н. ст. 1900 г. (перевод с английского): «Дорогой друг и учитель, меня просили сообщить вам о пяти молодых духоборах, которые написали из Владикавказской областной тюрьмы о том, что у них...

4. Толстой Л. Н. - Редферну Перси (Percy Redfern), 2 (15) августа 1901 г.

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Часть текста: Redfern). 1901 г . Августа 2/15. Я. П . Dear Friend, You were right in guessing that I must be interested in the Tolstoy Society. So I was. But I am sorry that I have enough vanity left to be interested in it. I have always held the opinion and it cannot change — that to be a member of the old Society that was started by God at the beginning of conscious humanity, is more profitable for oneself and for mankind than to be a member of limited societies which we organise for the sake of attaining the end which we are able to conceive. I think the preference we give to our own Societies is due to the fact that the part we play in our own Societies seems to us to be of much greater importance than the one we play in God’s great Society. But this is only an illusion; all the three modes of activity which you mention in your letter will be more surely attained by a man who regards himself a member of God’s great Society, than by a member of Tolstoy’s Society. Such a man who is earnest, as I know you are, will, firstly spread as much as he can the ideas that give him peace of conscience and energy in life without minding whether they are Tolstoy’s or anybody else’s. He will secondly try with all his might to induce people to speak their mind on the most important questions of life. He will, thirdly, try to give every person he comes in contact with, as much joy and happiness as it in his power to do and will also help those who get into difficulties through strictly following the teaching of Christ. A man belonging to God’s great Society, will beside that perform many other useful Christian acts...

5. Толстой Л. Н. - Мак-Уистер Марте (М. Mac-Whister), 10 сентября 1891 г.

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Часть текста: know that there are people who live as you live and that you know me and wish to have intercourse with me. Please give me more particulars about your kind of living: have you property, how do you manage it, are you non-resistants? What you write me about your taking low positions, working as servants, your laboring with your hands and your freedom of all a[c]knowledged confessions seems to me to be true conditions of a christian life. But I will be quite sincere — I hope you will be the same to me — and tell you what seems to me not right in your way of living. I think that to abandon husbands wifes and children is a mistake. A Christian I think must learn to live with all men as with brothers and sisters; and husbands, wifes and children should not make an exception. The more it is difficult for a Christian to establish brotherly relations between himself and his nearest relations, the more he must try to do it. The other thing that I do not approuve is that you do not allow your children to mix with the external world. I think a Christian must not enclose himself and his children in a narrow circle of his com[m]unity, but must try to act towards the whole world as if the whole world where his community and so he must educate the children. Please explain to me your words «when we received the light». How did you receive it? and what do you understand by the word «light»? Please also give me more details of the history of your community, I will be very thankful for it. My adress is: Tula , Russia. Thanking you again for your letter I remain Yours truly L. Tolstoy. 22 September. Дорогая сестра, Очень был рад получить ваше письмо и узнать, что есть люди, живущие так, как вы, и что вы знаете меня и хотите вступить со мною в ...

6. Толстой Л. Н. - Хису К. О. (Charles Heath), 19 сентября 1897 г.

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Часть текста: Н. - Хису К. О. (Charles Heath), 19 сентября 1897 г. 168. К. О. Хису (Charles Heath). Недоставленное 1897 г. Сентября 19. Я. П. Dear Mr. Heath, I think the Emperor is dreadfully cheated. In Samara in April the administration took away from several «molokans» their little children in the most cruel way. There is no reason whatever for those children to be taken away and not others. The parents came to me, asking for help. I could not help them otherwise than by writing a letter to the Emperor, which I sent him through A. Olsoufieff. Now, in «Grajdanine» («Гражданин») Meschersky accuses the missionaries of Kazan of proposing the cruel mesure of taking children from their sectarian parents. So that we are made to believe that that measure cannot be used in Russia. And nevertheless the children are taken away from their parents. The parents are vainly trying in all government institutions to find justice, and have yeasterday again come to me, asking for help. I can only do two things: write the whole story in foreign papers, or try again to make it known to the Emperor. I have chosen the latter, and have again written a letter to the Emperor, which I ask you to be so kind as to forward to him. I think every one of us ought to try to undeceive him, so I hope you will not be angry with me for my request. I beg you to believe me, dear Sir, yours sincerely Leo Tolstoy. 1897. September 19. Toula. Jasnaya Poliana. Дорогой г. Хис, Я думаю,...

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

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Часть текста: «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 the English in their government by force, and never on any account take service in an organisation based on violence. Therefore, I think, the duty of all civilized Indians is to try to destroy all old superstitions, which hide from the masses the principles of true religion, i. e....

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

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Часть текста: 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 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...

9. Толстой Л. Н. - Кокреллю Сиднею (Sidney Cockerell), 29 апреля (12 мая) 1904 г.

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Часть текста: Л. Н. - Кокреллю Сиднею (Sidney Cockerell), 29 апреля (12 мая) 1904 г. 111. Сиднею Кокреллю (Sidney Cockerell). 1904 г. Апреля 29/мая 12. Я. П. Dear Mr. Cockerell, Please excuse me for not having answered your letter and thanked you for the Ruskin’s books. 1 Now I have received the Mufti’s letter and am very obliged to you for forwarding it to me. The Mufti’s letter is so orientally laudatory that I find it [is] difficult to answer it. But I will try to do it and am very glad to communicate with such an interesting personality. Yours truly 12 May 1904. Leo Tolstoy. Дорогой г. Кокрелль, Пожалуйста, извините меня за то, что я не ответил на ваше письмо и не поблагодарил вас за книги Рёскина. 1 Сейчас получил письмо муфтия и очень признателен вам за то, что вы его мне переслали. Письмо муфтия так по-восточному хвалебно, что мне трудно на него ответить. Но постараюсь сделать это и очень рад общению с таким интересным человеком. Искренно ваш Лев Толстой. 12 мая 1904. Примечания Печатается по копировальной книге № 6, л. 133. Сидней Кокрелль (р. 1867) — ...

10. Толстой Л. Н. - Хэйгу Александру (Alexander Haig), 30 июня (13 июля) 1904 г.

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Часть текста: Толстой Л. Н. - Хэйгу Александру (Alexander Haig), 30 июня (13 июля) 1904 г. 173. Александру Хэйгу (Alexander Haig). 1904 г. Июня 30/июля 13. Я. П . Dear Sir, I received your new book 1 and have read part of it with great interest. I think it would be good to translate it in Russian, and I will try to do it if you have nothing against it. I am quite ignorant about J. Thomas 2 and his work and would be very glad to know it. I would rather not abuse of your kindness and will ask my friends to send me those books. I am very glad to know that you are interested in religious matter. It forms a new link between you and me. Yours truly Leo Tolstoy. 13 July 1904. Милостивый государь, Я получил вашу новую книгу 1 и часть ее прочел с большим интересом. Я думаю, что хорошо бы перевести ее на русский язык, и постараюсь это сделать, если вы ничего не имеете против. Я ничего не знаю о Дж. Томасе 2 и его работе и был бы рад с ней ознакомиться. Не желая злоупотреблять вашей добротой, попрошу моих друзей выслать мне эти книги. Очень рад был узнать, что вы интересуетесь религиозными вопросами. Это создает новую связь между вами и мною. Искренно ваш Лев Толстой. 13 июля 1904. Примечания Печатается по копировальной книге № 6, л. 206. Александр Хэйг (р. 1853) — англичанин, доктор медицины Оксфордского университета. Ответ на письмо Хэйга от 25 июня н. с. 1904 г., в котором он, извещая Толстого о посылке ему своей новой книги, писал: «Заодно решаюсь побеспокоить вас вопросом, знаете ли вы книгу «Elpis Jsrael», или «Israel’s Норе» доктора медицины Джона Томаса, изданную Робертом Робертсом?» 1 Какую из книг Хэйга имеет в виду Толстой, установить не удалось. 2 В яснополянской библиотеке имеется книга: John Thomas, «Elpis Jsrael being an exposition of the Kingdom of God, with reference to the time of the end and the age to come», изд. 6-e, Birmingham, 1888.

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