Tolstoy says:
Speaking of my past I condemn myself unreservedly, for all my
faults and errors were the natural result of my aristocratic
birth and training, which is the worst thing that can befall a
man, as it stifles every human instinct. Turgenef wrote to me:
“You have tried for many years to become a peasant in conduct as
well as in ideas, but you nevertheless are the same aristocrat.
You are good-hearted and have a charming personality, but I have
observed that in all your practical dealings with the peasants
you remain the patronizing master who likes to be esteemed for
his benefactions and to be considered the bounteous patriarch,”
in which he was very right.
(129)
=Ark, Noah’s Seaworthy=--See BIBLE RE-ENFORCED.
=Armament, Costly=--See WAR, AFTER EFFECTS OF.