Travelogues; . t with an accent thatsuggests the speech of Henry Irving, with an added Gallictwist. He talks upon a dozen subjects with equal interest,enthusiasm, and, above all, originality. There should be nolaw ; no man should have the right to judge or to condemnanother ; absolute freedom of the individual is the only thingthat will redeem the world. Christ was a great teacher,nothing more. This was the sum and substance of his viewsas expressed to my companion, a distinguished American, inJune, 1901. But Tolstoi both claims and exercises the right to revise opinions,and proclaims fromtime
Travelogues; . t with an accent thatsuggests the speech of Henry Irving, with an added Gallictwist. He talks upon a dozen subjects with equal interest,enthusiasm, and, above all, originality. There should be nolaw ; no man should have the right to judge or to condemnanother ; absolute freedom of the individual is the only thingthat will redeem the world. Christ was a great teacher,nothing more. This was the sum and substance of his viewsas expressed to my companion, a distinguished American, inJune, 1901. But Tolstoi both claims and exercises the right to revise opinions,and proclaims fromtime to time a newand always startlingattitude toward thetruths and conten-tions in the greatarena of philosophicthought. We breakfastedwith him on the ve-randa, a large andloving family gath-ered round the samo-var ; the two daintygrandchildren re-lieved with the note ofyouth and hope andfreshness the al-most sad impressionproduced upon us bythe atmosphere ofneglect and tumble- MY GRANDCHILDREN dowuuBss pcrmeatiug. MOSCOW 191 not only the peasant village but even the house and privategrounds of the estate, of which the Russian title, YasnayaPoliana means the Bright Plain, or the Illuminated if we cannot sympathize with the almost fatalisticphilosophy of a return to nature — a philosophy that wouldlet all things go to seed, we are not blind to the brightnessthat illumines the Yasnaya Poliana, for it is the brightness of
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