The Kingdom of God Is Within YouThe essence of the social conception of life consists in the transference of the meaning of our personal lives into the life of the aggregate of personalities, -the tribe, the family, the race, the state. This transference has taken place easily and naturally in its first forms, in the transference of meaning of life from the personality to the tribe, the family. But the transference to the race or nation is more difficult and demands a special education for it... -from The Kingdom of God Is Within You He is considered one of the greatest novelists in any language in all of human history, but Leo Tolstoy was also an influential social reformer and peace advocate. Subtitled "Christianity Not as a Mystical Teaching but as a New Concept of Life," this powerful exploration of the preachings of Jesus from a pacifistic perspective. First published in 1893, it introduced such important 20th-century figures as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King to the concept of nonviolent resistance. This edition is vital reading for anyone wishing to understand the history of protest around the world or gain a deeper appreciation of pacifistic Christianity. Russian writer COUNT LEV ("LEO") NIKOLAYEVICH TOLSTOY (1828-1910) is best known for his novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). Translation by Harvard professor of Slavic languages, Leo Weiner (1862-1939). |
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... soldiers ; against all monuments commemorative of victory over a foreign foe , all trophies won in battle , all celebrations in honour of military or naval exploits : against all appropriations for the defence of a nation by force and ...
... soldiers ; against all monuments commemorative of victory over a foreign foe , all trophies won in battle , all celebrations in honour of military or naval exploits : against all appropriations for the defence of a nation by force and ...
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... soldiers , and ships - of - war . In the maintenance and use of this expensive life - destroying apparatus , we can exem- plify the virtues of forgiving our injurers , loving our ene- mies , blessing them that curse us , and doing good ...
... soldiers , and ships - of - war . In the maintenance and use of this expensive life - destroying apparatus , we can exem- plify the virtues of forgiving our injurers , loving our ene- mies , blessing them that curse us , and doing good ...
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... soldier , but cannot even take part in the government , be a merchant or even a landowner ; he can be only an artisan or an agriculturist . This book is one of the extremely few that have sur- vived the auto - da - fés of books in which ...
... soldier , but cannot even take part in the government , be a merchant or even a landowner ; he can be only an artisan or an agriculturist . This book is one of the extremely few that have sur- vived the auto - da - fés of books in which ...
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... soldiers , which they are made to learn by rote : it says there that only the general is responsible for the consequences of his com- mand . But this is not true . A man cannot shift the responsibility for his acts . And this may be ...
... soldiers , which they are made to learn by rote : it says there that only the general is responsible for the consequences of his com- mand . But this is not true . A man cannot shift the responsibility for his acts . And this may be ...
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... soldiers , lest the soldiers might find out from him that the levy for military service does not at all take place in accord- ance with God's law , as they are assured , but contrary to it . The most convenient thing for the government ...
... soldiers , lest the soldiers might find out from him that the levy for military service does not at all take place in accord- ance with God's law , as they are assured , but contrary to it . The most convenient thing for the government ...
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Page 97 - Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat ? or, What shall we drink ? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed ? ,for after all these things do the Gentiles seek ; for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
Page 40 - And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all, Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
Page 193 - Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock ; and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house ; and it fell not ; for it was founded upon a rock...
Page 17 - Lord, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days ; and the judges shall make diligent inquisition : and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother; then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.
Page 145 - Arbitration shall be obligatory in all controversies concerning diplomatic and consular privileges, boundaries, territories, indemnities, the right of navigation, and the validity, construction and enforcement of treaties.
Page 97 - Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature ? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: and yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 79 - Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: all therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do ye not after their works : for they say, and do not.
Page 17 - If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow : he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him ; and he shall pay as the judges determine. 23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, 24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.