"The man who holds the divine theory of life recognizes life not in his own individuality, and not in societies of individualities (in the family, the clan, the nation, the tribe, or the government), but in the eternal undying source of lifeāin God; and to fulfill the will of God he is ready to sacrifice his individual and family and social welfare. The motor power of his life is love. And his religion is the worship in deed and in truth of the principle of the wholeāGod."
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Chapter IV, Christianity Misunderstood by Men of Science
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Leo Tolstoy
1844 ā 1930
Lev Nikolayevitch Tolstoy [ŠŠµĢŠ² ŠŠøŠŗŠ¾Š»Š°ĢŠµŠ²ŠøŃ Š¢Š¾Š»ŃŃŠ¾ĢŠ¹, usually rendered Leo Tolstoy, or sometimes Tolstoi] (9 September 1828 ā 20 November 1910) was a Russian writer, philosopher and social activist (social critic), whose novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina are internationally praised classics of world literature. He was a major influence on the development of Christian anarchism and pacifism, contributing to such nonviolent resistance movements as those of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King,
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