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The more enlightened of their leaders looked upon him as a reactionary, standing in the way of the people's progress.
Why We Fail as Christians (1919)
Struggling apparently to annihilate self, Tolstoy pursued the circle of his philosophy until he came back to the point of deifying Self.
Why We Fail as Christians (1919)
Such a way was found in the communism of the early Christians.
Why We Fail as Christians (1919)
Throughout Bakounin's writings there appears again and again the plea for "terrible, total, inexorable, and universal destruction.
Violence and the Labor Movement (1914)
Isaiah prophesied the coming of a revolution which would make men more precious than gold, and that a new nation would arise, wherein everyone should help his neighbor.
Why We Fail as Christians (1919)
Both socialists and anarchists preach their gospel to the weary and heavy-laden, to the despondent and the outraged, who may readily be led to commit acts of despair.
Violence and the Labor Movement (1914)
Tolstoyans proved rather a source of amusement to others than an inspiration and a light, and those who scoffed at Tolstoy's followers greatly enjoyed relating stories of their inconsistencies.
Why We Fail as Christians (1919)
During the entire last century many of the best minds were engaged in the study of social and economic questions. At the beginning of this new century we are still asking "riddles about the starving."
Poverty (1912)
While seeking his true relation to the infinite, Tolstoy was also seeking his true relation to mankind.
Why We Fail as Christians (1919)
Curiously enough, and this is what his family could not understand, the more religious he became the less he could tolerate the churches.
Why We Fail as Christians (1919)
Society as a whole would return... to the actual poverty of an agricultural and handicraft age.
Why We Fail as Christians (1919)
As we look into a clear pool and discern every detail of its sandy bottom, so may we often look into the minds of really great men.
Why We Fail as Christians (1919)
Unquestionably socialism and anarchism attract distinctly different types, who are in many ways alien to each other. Their mental processes differ.
Violence and the Labor Movement (1914)
She was as impervious as a tigress, concealing the lair of her young, to the teaching that a Christian must be willing to sacrifice everything and everybody in pursuit of truth.
Why We Fail as Christians (1919)
I should not be at all surprised if the number of those in poverty in New York, as well as in other large cities and industrial centers, rarely fell below 25 per cent of all the people.
Poverty (1912)
Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color, hold away despair
Terrapin Station (1977)
In the country, Tolstoy could still see the possibility of men living a Christian life; in the cities he saw no such possibility. Cities had therefore to be uprooted and destroyed. The people had to get back to the soil.
Why We Fail as Christians (1919)
Tolstoy's suggestions created no enthusiasm among the people. All.. seemed to be more than eager for Russia to hasten along the path already traversed by western civilization
Why We Fail as Christians (1919)
Tolstoy, while sympathizing with the industrial workers, believed that they ought not to organize in trade unions and he opposed strenuously nearly every form of action advocated by working-class organizations.
Why We Fail as Christians (1919)
Jesus, after leaving the Temple, went to the Mount of Olives, and there explained the meaning of his words by a picture of the Day of Judgment.
Why We Fail as Christians (1919)