From: Count Leo Tolstoï (1891). Church and State and Other Essays. Boston, Mass.: Benj. R. Tucker, Publisher.
"Church and State"
Leo Tolstoy
Translated by Victor Yarros
FAITH is that which invests life with meaning, that which gives strength and direction to life.
Every living man discovers this meaning and lives upon it.
Having failed to discover it, he dies.
In his search, man avails himself of all that humanity has achieved. All that has been achieved by humanity is called revelation.
Revelation is that which helps man to comprehend the meaning of life.
Such is the relation of man to faith.
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