Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-08-13
TOlstoy's Prophecy
ola World Wide War

Count Leo Tolstoy in 1910, written b
his erandniece for the Chicago Rec
ord-Herald in which he predicts tn
present war:
II see floating upon the surface o
he sea OF human fate the huge sill
houette of a nude woman. She is
with her beauty poise. her smile he
1ewels--a super-Venus, Nations rusf
madly after her, each OF them eagei
to attract her especially. But she
like an eternal oourtesan, flirts witt
all In her hair ornaments, of dia'
monds and rubies, is engraved hei
name. "commercialism As allurinp
ana hewitching as she seems, much
destruction and agony follow in her
wake. Her breath, rocking Of sordid
transactions. her voice of metallic
character like gold and her look OF
greed are so much poison to the ma
tons who fall victims 10 her charms.
Three Torches Of Corruption.
And, behold. she has three gigantic
arms with three torches Of universal
corruption In her hands The first
torch represents the flame of war,
that the beautiful courtesan carries
from city to city and country TO coun-
try. Patriotism answers with flashes
Of honest flame, but the end is a
roar of guns and of muskets
The second torch bears the flame
of bigotry and hypocrisy. 1t lights the
lamps only in temples and on affairs
of sacred institutions. II carries the
seed OF falsty and fanaticism. 1t
cradles and follows them to their
graves.
''rhe third torch is that Of the law,
that dangerous foundation Of all UNI
authentic traditions, which first does
It's fatal work in the family, then
sweeps through the larger world of
literature, art and statesmanship.
ConfIagraiion In 1912.
THE great conflagration will start
about 1912, set by the torch of the
first arm in the countries Of south
eastern Europe. 1t will develop into
n destruction and calamity in 1913. In
that year see all Europe in flames
anu hieeulns. near lne ldlUenta-
tions of huge battlefields.
But about the year 1915 the strange
figure from the nortlf-a new Napo-
leon-enters the stays of the bloody /
drama He is man Of little milf
taristic training, writer or jour
nalist, but in his grip most Of Eu
rope will remain until 1925.
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mark a new political era for the old
world There will be left no empires
or kingdoms. but the world will form
a federation OF the United States of
Nations. There will remain only four
great giants-the AngloSaxon, the /,
Latins, the Slavs and the Mongolians.
Humanity Without Il Moral Feeling.
After the year 1925 see change
in religious sentiment. The second
torch Of the courtesan has brought
about the fall of the church. The
ethical idea has almost vanished. HUI
manity is without moral feeling.
But then great reformer arises
He will clear the world of the relics
of monotheism and lay the cornerstone
VI tnt A'iiPtE VI Bbiitiiticiils hVut
soul, spirit and immortality will be
molten in a new furnace. and | see
the peaceful beginning of an ethical
era The man determined to this
mission is a Monaghan Sav. He is
already walking the earth---a man of |
active affairs. He himself does not |
now realize the mission assigned to
him by Superior Powers.
And. behold, the flame Of the third ,
orch, which has already begun to de-
'troy our family relations, our stand ,
trds of art and morals. The rela- !
ion between woman and man Is ac-
epted as a prosaic partnership Of the :
exes Art has become realistic de- ;
!
Political and religious disturbances /,
ave shaken the spiritual founda
ions Of all nations.
Torch of Symbolism Dims CONNER
calism. !
only small spots here and there
ave remained untouched by those !
hree destructive flames The anti
wars in Europe. The class Wal .
+ America and the race wars in Asia !,
ave strangled progress for a half
entury by then, in the middle of j
his century, | see a heroine of liter
ture and art rising from the ranks of !.
he Latns and Persans. the world of
he tedious stuff of the obvious.
1T is the light of symbolism that
hall outshine the light of the torch
[ commercialism In place of polyg-
my and monogamy of today there will 6,
ONE a recommendation of the :
axes based fundamentally on the po- u
tic conceptions Of life. q
And | see the nations growing larg- :
r and realizing that the alurng wo- '
IAN Of their destiny is after all moth
lg but an illusion. There will be :
me when the world will have no use
lr armies. hypocritical religions and 81
egenerate art. Life is evolution and n
is development from the il
nipple to the more complicated forms
{ the mind and body. a
Il see the passing show of the world
rama in its present form. how it fades a
Ike the glow of evening upon the
One motion of the hand n