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Часть текста: 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 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,...

2. Толстой Л. Н. - Кенворти Джону (John С. Kenworthy), 8 июля 1894 г.

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Часть текста: 1894 г. 171. Джону Кенворти (John Kenworthy). 1894 г. Июля 8. Я. П. Dear friend, I have received both your letters & the papers, which you sent, and thank you for the one & the other. In regard to your letter, the one before last, in which you write that soon you will have formed a community, I wished to answer you the following: Of course one can not but desire the largest spreading of that which one regards as the truth, and not only as an abstract truth, but 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...

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

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Часть текста: 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. But this life should in no-wise be understood as a resurrection to future life, as a hereafter. One cannot be too cautious in the use of terms for the definition of the true, indestructible, eternal life. If we were to say, that it will be a personal life, that we shall pass into other bodies or beings, as the Buddhists understand it in their metam-psychosis, we should be making a gratuitous assertion. If, on the other hand, we were to assert, that death destroys all that which composes our «ego», it would be a...

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

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Часть текста: point which I did not put clearly enough in my last letter I must explain to avoid misunderstanding. It is about compromise. I said that compromise, 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 only of my death or the death of other men who can be killed by the madman; but death will come sooner or later, and death in fulfilling the will of God is a blessing (as you put it yourself in your book); but in admitting this compromise I run the risk of acting contrary to the law of Christ — which is worse than death. It is the same with property. As soon as I admit in principle my right to property, I necessarily will try to keep it from others and to ...

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

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Часть текста: Dear Sir, You are asking me a question which I am trying to solve those 20 last years. When we for the first time understand what true Christian life should be and how far from this Christian life is the life that we are living, it seems to us so natural and so easy to abandon the false wordly life and [lead] the true, happy one, that we arе astonished of finding hindrances to this change and ascribe generally those hindrances to our exclusive position. But in this we are mistaken. We think that our Christian life will begin when wе will be free from our wordly ties, but it begins when we are 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...

6. Толстой Л. Н. - Стокгэм А. (A. Stockham), 30 ноября 1888 г.

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Часть текста: I am competent, truly a book, not only for woman but for mankind. Without labour in this direction mankind cannot go forward; and it seems to me especially in the matter treated in your book in chapter XI, we are very much behindhand. It is strange, that last week I have written a long letter to one of my friends 1 on the same subject. That sexual relation without the wish and possibility of having children is worse than prostitution and onanism, and in fact is both. I say it is worse, because a person who commits these crimes, not being married, is always conscious of doing wrong, but a husband and a wife, which commit the same sin, think that they are quite righteous. Therefore your book (not speaking of its great merits) was very welcome to me. I should very much like to have your book sold in M[oscow] and P[etersburg]. L. T. Милостивая государыня, Я получил вашу книгу «Токология» и очень благодарю вас за ее присылку. Я просмотрел ее и нахожу, что она, насколько я в этом компетентен, действительно книга не только для женщин, но для всего...

7. Записная книжка № 2, 1890 г.

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Часть текста: К Кон [ евской ]. Уйдите, уйдите. Потом он подошел, видит, она постояла и вдруг побежала. ———————————————————————————————————— 23 Ф. Самоубийство — это нарочно проснуться от кошмара.[178] ———————————————————————————————————— Претерпевый до конца тот спасен будет. ———————————————————————————————————— Почему матерьялисты думают, что они отрицают бессмертие и вечные сущност[и]? Материя и энергия обе во мне в каком-то соединении, составляющем единое (форма).[179]Всё объяснит, но не организм. Отчего? Зачем?...

8. Записная книжка № 1, 1890 г.

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Часть текста: на балах. Ну как их поддержать. Бары [ ня ]. Не велит продавать и между прочим. Не порядок в передней. От Бурдье. Шп[юлер]. Он [и] доктор сцепляются. Гипноз. У Петр[ищева]. Верите или не верите? Не верю, не в[ерю] обет[ам] к[оварным]. Я закричу порос[енком]. После порос[енка]. 1-й муж[ик]. Это к чему же? Что же это он. А[ртельщик?]. Веселит[ся?] М[ужик]. В роде, как для забав[ы]. 3-й [мужик]. Для разгулки времени, знач[ит]. Сахат[ов] с Докт[ором]. Оживленная беседа. Сахат [ ов ] . От вас не уйде[шь]. За платье 100 р[ублей]. В 4-й акт. Б [ арыня ] . Погодит[е] 2-й м [ ужик ]. Нет, пот[ому] уж дело конче[но]. Только деньги получ[и]. Непременно мяту. Ведь я учился про это. Это в книгах написало]. Так, покупайте, не скупитесь. Это сколько? П[удов?] т[риста?] ———————————————————————————————————— Ну, вот и прекрасно. ———————————————————————————————————— Рассказ[ывают] неправду, рассказ[ывают] то, что нельзя проверить, много т[ак] наз[ываемых] медиумов обманщики. Не только много обмана, но много и самообмана. Много ложных перетолкований. Дают явлениям значе[ние], к[оторого] они не имеют. Но мы все-таки не можем не видеть и не исследовать фактов....

9. Толстой Л. Н. - Черткову В. Г., 29 января 1903 г.

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Часть текста: Толстой Л. Н. - Черткову В. Г., 29 января 1903 г. 679. 1903 г. Января 29. Я. П. Supplement send again; 1 if troublesome, wait publish without. Still weak. Посылаю еще добавление; 1 если затруднительно, печатайте без. Всё еще слаб. Примечания Телеграмма. Датируется по пометкам на телеграфном бланке. 1 Добавление к «Разрушению ада и восстановлению его».

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

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Часть текста: 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. consciousness of the...

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