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Excerpt from Why We Fail as Christians
Nor is Tolstoyism in any complete sense my theme. There are tenets in his faith that I have not touched upon. Nonresistance and perfect chastity are perhaps the two most important. When I was with him at Yasnaya Polyana in 1903, he took me into his study just before my departure, and there endeavored to impress upon me that, in his opinion, the two cardinal virtues were voluntary poverty and nonresistance. Tolstoy also considered bread-labor, a vegetarian diet, temperance, service, meditation, celibacy and prayer as essential to the Christian life. The Tolstoyism that is dwelt upon here is his literal interpretation of the gospels, the emphasis he laid upon love of one's neighbor and his strenuous effort to live the perfect Christian life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
