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ness and energy. He believes firmly in bis

ness and energy. lie believes firmly in bis
second birth
when was born, some seventeen years
ago" he said 10 Or. Loewenfeld.
but. sir count" protested the doctor.
"were you not born in 1882 TOlstoi made
gesture OF depreciation and concluded;
THAT was no birth. because no life iOl-
lOwedr
Then he related how seventeen years since
he had waited near the wooden image oi
Christ at the crossroads 10 hear what the
peasant pilgrims said: how be was moved
by their simplicity and ignorance, ana no"
finally be went out with them INTO Tue
desert. Since then the TEACHINGS ana lnnu-
ence OF the philosophers life have Desn
ieavening the Russian peasant masses ~
his books are iorbiddep. he writes ep'slIes
i'm evangelical stylef These episies are
copied with pen and ink. mostly by impoV-
erished women Of high birth and education,
and are spread broadcast among the poor
Unofficial Russia il rayenOus for all the
philosopher writes. Even the Gar has
every new word from IOstOIs pen read 10
him. and. il is related, greeted the last
words Of "Might Of Darkness" with "Grand +!
grand" The Empress. on the other hand
has expressed in marginal notes 70 all her
copies Of TOlstoi'styorks her disgust with
TOlstors commentary on the Eyangelists,
which exists only in manuscript form in
Russia. sells for so. TolstO's knowledge
Of literature DR.. LOwenfeld found 10 be cos
mop0litan. lie damns the literary world.
Goethe, he said. was no great poet, because
lacking entirely the ethical. All Of the
great German poems, Iolsf0i said. reyOlyed
around an esthetic, not ethical, centre.
4 comparatively unheralded and unsung
enterprise Of TolstOfs was his founding of
thirteen schools IA the vicinity OF bis home
10 train. according 10 his idea, the moral a.
well az the physical and intellectual natures
Of the children there. lie interested in his
scheme q skilled German educator. and
summoned students from Moscow to aid him
in realizing his ideal The government mis-
trusted the undertaking. however, oppose d
il actively. and eventually eau cd the fail
ure OF about all the thirteen schools.
TolstOi's study is furnished with rigorous
simplicity. IL contains but one ornament,
The bust OF Arthur >ch0penhauer. whom
TolstOi admires above all ether phlloeo-
pliers.
Tolstoi also gave DR.. LOewenfed peep
at his life and its lessons TO him. Already
i'm his bOyhOOd TOlstOi pOndered over ethical
problems, the injustice Of the existing divi-
vision aud the SIN Of social Glasses. His
parents died early. He never knew them.
They tell me they were good enough peO-
pie" TOlstoi said, This remark gives KEY
to the reflection in the "kruetzer sonata
concerning "A mothers love. While student
at Moscow he kept himself away from all
lectures. and eventually hurried OF TO es-
cape from the mOrass Of gambling debts In
which he was sinking. lie went TO the
Caucasus and distinguished himself
at SebastOpOl. Still consumed by dis
content, he turned to ST. Petersburg.
took lodgings in the same house
with Tourgenien and wrote " Van
and Peace" and "Anna karenina." both OF
which he now wishes 10 disOwn. The great
moral questions Of life left him no peace.
however. Thoughts Of the inequality Of the
division Of property. the necessity Of doing
more positively 10 perfect mans develop
ment and 10 spread the practice Of virtue
tmOng the masses, and Of the barbarity oil
war. kept his spirit i'm a turmoil. When he
returned to 81. Petersburg, TOlstCi said. BE-
was an atheist in religion and nihilist in
morals. tour OF all Europe outside Of
Russia, however. resulted in his conversion
to the orthodox faith and in his rigid Obser-
vance of the lettero Of the biblical commands