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Author : Leo Tolstoy
Text :
‘And fear not them who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body.’ (Matt., X, 28)
Because of the perversion of the Christianity, the life of the Christian people has become worse than of the pagans.
The reform of evil that exists in life must begin with a denunciation of the religious lie and the establishing of religious truth within each individual person.
The sufferings involved in an irrational life lead to an awareness of the necessity of rational life.
None of the wretchedness of either humanity or the individual is useless, for it always leads humanity, albeit in a roundabout way, to the only activity for which man is destined: self-perfection.
(Source: Translated from Russian by EarthlyFireFlies and Wikisource.)
From : Wikisource.org.
Chronology :
November 30, 1907 : Introduction -- Publication.
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