BY COUNT LEO TOLSTOY

Translated by V. T. and A. C. F., Principally from private letters,

diaries and unpublished Mss.

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_Some Extracts._

Women who demand masculine work and liberty equal to that of man are

generally unconsciously demanding the liberty of License, and in

consequence descend to a plane lower than the family one, while imagining

they are ascending higher....

I think that a man who has entered upon physical connection with a woman

cannot, and must not, forsake her especially when there is or may be a

child....

Chastity is an ideal after which one should always; under all conditions,

strive. The nearer you are realising it the more you--not to say attain a

merit before God--attain a greater degree of your own well being. Man may

serve God more by being chaste than by giving himself up to carnal

life....

Attacks of sexual lust engender confusion of thought. The absence of

thought rather--the whole world darkens. Man loses his relation to

it--chance, blackness and failure....

One thing is rational: "Be perfect, as your Father", and this perfection

is in purity and then in Love, deduction: first, purity, then preservation

of the race....

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