Claws on the Behind: Tolstoy and Darwin
Journal: Academic Studies Press eBooks
Year: 2019

In his diary for 28 October 1900 Tolstoy reports his ruminations during a walk taken that day.His mind, as it often did, dwelt on the distance between the "religion of true Christianity," of which he felt himself almost the sole living spokesman, and false religion, the superstition of the "cultured mob," propagated by such unjustly celebrated eminences as Hegel, Darwin, Spencer, Shakespeare, Dante, Ibsen, the Decadents, Raphael, Bach, Beethoven, and (perhaps worst of all) Wagner.Tolstoy's thoug