Article October 28, 1911 Issue

Among the learned who study philosophy one meets...

Leo Tolstoi

Among the learned who study philosophy one meets some individuals who study it, not, as most of them do, merely professionally, but for the sake of their own souls. It is difficult for these learned men to free themselves from the scientific superstitions in which they have grown up and matured, and by the service of which conspicuous worldly success is so often obtained. But some of them, possessing live, sincere, and moral natures, unceasingly strive to liberate themselves. Realizing in their inner experience all the narrowness, or, to put it plainly, the stupidity, of the materialist view of life, which is incompatible with any moral teaching, they are inevitably drawn to the acknowledgment of a spiritual principle as the basis of everything and to the question of man's relation to that spiritual principle.—Count Leo Tolstoi.

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