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Часть текста: 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...
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Часть текста: the wellbeing of our neighbour. In this case it is quite the opposite. This woman has sacrificed thе pеace and happiness not only of her husband and her father in law, but especially of her children, the eldest of which must dreadfully suffer and will suffer all his life for the shame of his mother, has sacrificed it all for the pleasure of being united without obstacles with the charming Mr. Giron. That is my opinion of this dirty story, which contrary to reason occupies the whole world. Yours truly Leo Tolstoy. Милостивый государь, Я не хочу осуждать поведение несчастной женщины, о которой вы писали мне. Сказано: не судите, да не судимы будете. Я только утверждаю, что во всем, мною когда-либо написанном, нет ни одного слова, которым можно было бы оправдать подобное поведение. Я исповедую христианское учение, которое требует от нас прежде всего, чтобы мы жертвовали нашими наслаждениями, нашим счастьем ради блага ближнего. В данном же случае произошло как раз противоположное. Эта женщина пожертвовала спокойствием и счастьем не только своего мужа и своего свекра, но и в особенности детей своих, из которых старший сын должен безумно страдать и будет страдать всю жизнь от позора матери, пожертвовавшей всем ради удовольствия беспрепятственного сожительства с обворожительным г. Жироном. Таков мой взгляд на эту грязную историю, которой напрасно занимается весь мир. Искренно ваш Лев Толстой. Примечания Печатается по копировальной книге № 5, лл. 118—119. Написано рукой М. Л. Оболенской, подпись собственноручная. Впервые опубликовано в феврале 1903 г. в американской ...
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Часть текста: act in the position in which the christian enlightenment found him, as his conscience bids him, and the result will be just what it ought to be: he will be chassed from the position that he ocupied and that may be the best thing for him. That is what I think about the difficulty Mr. Jones is in. It is great joy for me to know that there are men like Mr. Jones professing the christian doctrine not only in words but in deeds. Give him please my respect and love. What a pitiful state of jingoistic hypnotization is your people in now. It is dreadful but gives me nothing unexpected and new. This terrible evil and superstition which is called a virtue and which is unhappily so strong in America — patriotism could not produce anything else. They do not gather grapes from thornes... And so patriotism produces only lies, violence, murder. The sole sorrow of my old age is that I have not succeded to communicate to my brothers the truth which I feel with the same evidence as I feel the light of the sun. That patriotism must lead to lies, violence, murder and the loss not only of material wellbeing but of the greatest moral depravation. I am not yet discouraged and am now writing again on the same subject an article entitled «Carthago delenda est»; I will speak and write on this theme till my last breath because I think patriotism is one of the draedfullest delusions and evils of the world. Yours truly Leo Tolstoy. 23 апреля 1898. Дорогой Кросби, Я думаю, что Джонс совершенно правильно поступил, отказавшись помочь в принуждении, которое было нужно для общего блага. (Принуждение и всякого рода насилия всегда необходимы для общего блага.) Сказать, что он поступил правильно,...