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The Kingdom of God Is Within You

Leo Tolstoy

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1. "CHAPTER VI.", para. 150. "I am, dear sir, etc. "E. M. DE VOGÜÉ." This amounts to saying that history, human na
2. "CHAPTER VI.", para. 153. All discussion of the possibility of re-establishing peace instead of everlasting war
3. "CHAPTER VII.", para. 1. CHAPTER VII. Universal Compulsory Service is not a Political Accident, but the Furthe
4. "CHAPTER VII.", para. 4. It is usually supposed that universal military service and the increased armaments co
5. "CHAPTER VII.", para. 9. The effect of moral influence on a man is to change his desires and to bend them in t
6. "CHAPTER VII.", para. 11. The basis of authority is bodily violence. The possibility of applying bodily violenc
7. "CHAPTER VII.", para. 15. All the methods of appointing authorities that have been tried, divine right, and ele
8. "CHAPTER VII.", para. 19. Even if there was once a time when, owing to the low standard of morals, and the disp
9. "CHAPTER VII.", para. 25. After conquest the power of the emperor puts an end to internal dissensions, and so t
10. "CHAPTER VII.", para. 29. And therefore the oppression of the oppressed always goes on growing up to the furthe
11. "CHAPTER VII.", para. 34. Such has been and still is the condition of all the oppressed, but hitherto they have
12. "CHAPTER VII.", para. 39. That has always been necessary, and has become more and more necessary with the incre
13. "CHAPTER VII.", para. 41. In the German Reichstag not long ago, in reply to a question why funds were needed fo
14. "CHAPTER VII.", para. 43. If the laborer has no land, if he cannot use the natural right of every man to derive
15. "CHAPTER VII.", para. 46. To keep their subjects in oppression and to be able to enjoy the fruits of their labo
16. "CHAPTER VII.", para. 52. Universal military service was an inevitable logical necessity, to which we were boun
17. "CHAPTER VII.", para. 56. The advantages of social organization are security of property and labor and associat
18. "CHAPTER VII.", para. 62. To convince oneself of this one need only remember what things are done in every stat
19. "CHAPTER VII.", para. 64. The time has come when the ever-growing abuse of power by governments and their strug
20. "CHAPTER VII.", para. 65. "Except for the state," they say, "we should be exposed to the attacks of evil-dispos
21. "CHAPTER VII.", para. 67. "Except for the state," they tell us, "we should not have any religion, education, cu
22. "CHAPTER VII.", para. 70. "Without governments nations would be enslaved by their neighbors." It is scarcely ne
23. "CHAPTER VII.", para. 72. If the majority of men choose to submit rather than to refuse, it is not the result o
24. "CHAPTER VII.", para. 74. So much for the disadvantages of non-compliance. The disadvantages of compliance will
25. "CHAPTER VII.", para. 78. So much for the advantages and disadvantages of both lines of conduct for a man of th
26. "CHAPTER VIII.", para. 1. CHAPTER VIII.
27. "CHAPTER VIII.", para. 2. Christianity is Not a System of Rules, but a New Conception of Life, and therefore it
28. "CHAPTER VIII.", para. 2. f the Four Methods of Violence by the State, Men do not See this Inconsistency of Chr
29. "CHAPTER VIII.", para. 6. And by this experimental external method the majority of Christian men have now been
30. "CHAPTER VIII.", para. 11. And now after eighteen centuries the prophecy has been fulfilled. Not having followed
31. "CHAPTER VIII.", para. 15. Before Christ's teaching, it seemed to men that the one only means of settling a disp
32. "CHAPTER VIII.", para. 19. Already at the time Christianity arose, it was evident to a great number of people in
33. "CHAPTER VIII.", para. 22. But men were not ready to accept the solution given by Christ, and the old definition
34. "CHAPTER VIII.", para. 24. Things went on like this for eighteen centuries, and at last reached the present posi
35. "CHAPTER VIII.", para. 25. If the Roman, or the man of mediaeval times, or the average Russian of fifty years ag
36. "CHAPTER VIII.", para. 26. There is no one to-day who does not see the uselessness and injustice of collecting t
37. "CHAPTER VIII.", para. 26. ard it as unjust on the ground of the socialistic, communistic, or anarchistic theori
38. "CHAPTER VIII.", para. 29. Railways, telegraphs, telephones, photographs, and the great perfection of the means
39. "CHAPTER VIII.", para. 31. The third method is what I can only describe as hypnotizing the people. This consists
40. "CHAPTER VIII.", para. 32. The process is kept up during later years by the encouragement of religious and patri
41. "CHAPTER VIII.", para. 34. The fourth method consists in selecting from all the men who have been stupefied and
42. "CHAPTER VIII.", para. 37. The circle is complete, and there is no chance of breaking through it by force. Some
43. "CHAPTER VIII.", para. 41. The oppressed would be another set of people, and coercion would take some new form;
44. "CHAPTER VIII.", para. 46. While the pagan organization has been proved more and more false, the truth of the Ch
45. "CHAPTER VIII.", para. 49. Eighteen centuries of Christianity have not passed without an effect even on those wh
46. "CHAPTER VIII.", para. 49. en of our day in their inner consciousness condemn the existing effete pagan order, a
47. "CHAPTER VIII.", para. 54. The position of our Christian humanity, if you look at it from the outside with all i
48. "CHAPTER VIII.", para. 60. And these inconsistencies are not, as it might seem, because men pretend to be Christ
49. "CHAPTER VIII.", para. 61. Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of
50. "CHAPTER VIII.", para. 61. for no pecuniary profit, but only from childish vanity, for a china cross, a scrap of
51. "CHAPTER VIII.", para. 62. I know that many of these men will confidently try to prove that they have reasons fo
52. "CHAPTER VIII.", para. 62. e direst poverty;—not a man of the present day can fail to know that all these action
53. "CHAPTER VIII.", para. 66. More than that, in Germany, where compulsory service first originated, Caprivi has gi
54. "CHAPTER VIII.", para. 68. And even that is not all. In 1892, the same William, the ENFANT TERRIBLE of state aut
55. "CHAPTER VIII.", para. 72. The last, the most extreme test is put before men in its coarsest form. And they do n
56. "CHAPTER VIII.", para. 76. And that is true. A man with the social conception of life cannot resist. The aim of
57. "CHAPTER VIII.", para. 80. [Footnote: The fact that among certain nations, as the English and the American, mili
58. "CHAPTER IX.", para. 1. CHAPTER IX.
59. "CHAPTER IX.", para. 2. The External Life of Christian Peoples Remains Pagan Though they are Penetrated by Ch
60. "CHAPTER IX.", para. 2. ce in other States—Governments do not Know how to Treat Men who Refuse to Comply with
61. "CHAPTER IX.", para. 7. Humanity is passing through seemingly unnecessary, fruitless agonies. It is passing t
62. "CHAPTER IX.", para. 13. Let a man only understand his life as Christianity teaches him to understand it, let
63. "CHAPTER IX.", para. 19. And therefore the Christian, who is subject only to the inner divine law, not only ca
64. "CHAPTER IX.", para. 21. Under the pagan conception of life it was possible to carry out the will of the tempo
65. "CHAPTER IX.", para. 23. The Christian is independent of human authority, because he acknowledges God's author
66. "CHAPTER IX.", para. 27. "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." If there were any doubt
67. "CHAPTER IX.", para. 29. If every bee who could fly, did not try to fly, the others, too, would never be stirr
68. "CHAPTER IX.", para. 32. These people advance the opinion that the amelioration of life, the bringing of the f
69. "CHAPTER IX.", para. 34. The people are suffering from oppression, and to deliver them from this oppression th
70. "CHAPTER IX.", para. 37. Indeed, can one imagine a more striking instance of men flogging themselves than the
71. "CHAPTER IX.", para. 38. In fact, take any man of the present time whatever (I don't mean a true Christian, bu
72. "CHAPTER IX.", para. 39. One would expect that every man of the present day who has a grain of sense left, mig
73. "CHAPTER IX.", para. 40. And why, most of all, should I take part in person or hire others to murder my own br
74. "CHAPTER IX.", para. 43. I don't want to flog myself and I won't do it. I have no reason to do it. Do it yours
75. "CHAPTER IX.", para. 47. If in a former age, in the Roman times, it happened that a Christian confessed his re
76. "CHAPTER IX.", para. 51. These people are punished and exiled to a distance, and life goes on in its old way.
77. "CHAPTER IX.", para. 56. "Nothing." The subjects of a state are all bound to pay taxes. And everyone pays taxe
78. "CHAPTER IX.", para. 64. All peasants are bound to fill certain police offices—that of village constable, and
79. "CHAPTER IX.", para. 66. All young men of twenty-one years of age are obliged to draw lots for service in the
80. "CHAPTER IX.", para. 67. After deliberation among themselves, the military authorities decide to get rid of th
81. "CHAPTER IX.", para. 68. This incident occurs in a provincial town. The case awakens the interest, and even th
82. "CHAPTER IX.", para. 68. , where he can be shot for refusing to obey, and where the matter can proceed without
83. "CHAPTER IX.", para. 70. Other men in various parts of Russia behave, as though by agreement, precisely in the
84. "CHAPTER IX.", para. 71. And cases of refusing to comply with the demands of government when they are opposed
85. "CHAPTER IX.", para. 72. The socialists, the communists, the anarchists, with their bombs and riots and revolu
86. "CHAPTER IX.", para. 74. Revolutionary enemies attack the government from without. Christianity does not attac
87. "CHAPTER IX.", para. 77. Those who refuse to take the oath of allegiance refuse because to promise obedience t
88. "CHAPTER IX.", para. 81. If they had been revolutionists, advocating and practicing violence and murder, their
89. "CHAPTER IX.", para. 81. friends, and a past; their way of thinking and acting is well known; they are known b
90. "CHAPTER IX.", para. 83. Thus it is that the ruling authorities are in such a defenseless position before men
91. "CHAPTER X.", para. 1. CHAPTER X.
92. "CHAPTER X.", para. 2. Christianity Destroys the State—But Which is Most Necessary: Christianity or the Stat
93. "CHAPTER X.", para. 2. of Life—Objection of those who Defend State Organization that Universal Adoption of C
94. "CHAPTER X.", para. 3. Christianity in its true sense puts an end to government. So it was understood at its
95. "CHAPTER X.", para. 5. Some people maintain that government is more necessary for humanity, that the destruc
96. "CHAPTER X.", para. 7. And it cannot be proved, as the champions of the state maintain, that the destruction
97. "CHAPTER X.", para. 9. It is the same with the question whether the time has come to do away with the govern
98. "CHAPTER X.", para. 10. "It may well be that government was necessary and is still necessary for all the adva
99. "CHAPTER X.", para. 11. Whatever arguments may be advanced in support of the contention that the suppression
100. "CHAPTER X.", para. 13. But in this assertion the champions of the existing order of things take for granted