The Kingdom of God Is Within You: Christianity Not as a Mystic Religion but as a New Theory of Life, Translated From the Russian (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Kingdom of God Is Within You<br/><br/>One cannot of course anticipate that English people, slow as they are to be in?uenced by ideas, and instinctively distrustful of all that is logical, will take a leap in the dark and attempt to put Tolstoy's theory of life into practice. But one may at least be sure that his destructive criticism of the present social and political regime will become a powerful force in the work 0. Disintegration and social reconstruction which is going on around us. Many earnest thinkers who, like Tolstoy, are struggling to find their way out of the contradictions of our social order will hail him as their Spiritual guide. The individuality of the author is felt In every line of his work, and even the most prejudiced cannot resist the fascination of his genuineness, sincerity, and profound earnestness. Whatever comes from a heart such as his, swelling with anger and pity at the sufferings of humanity, cannot fail to reach the hearts of others. No reader can put down the book without feeling himself better and more truth-loving for having read it.