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Show EZSZZZZZSZZZZZZHZl ToMo, tin highest tree in the forest of ltiihMau cicativciics is n genius which np onh the Utiiaii -nil could have produced. WH'.y Ht. hns been cieatcd by a seiies of centu- tf( r"s lt,,",,i historical and social life. j Tlnoiigh his lips the composite soul of thc j .111 I1 tiiuin people, oppieed by the unbeaiahle i inrfcl'till 'l' " ,,11f,)'llll,,', nllu shivety, spoke out in a oicc that icMiunckd tliroiigliout the woild the unstic mhiI which is dissatis- By IIENRYK SIENKIEWICZ, Hctl with the external world, which is oceti- Aaibir i "Qu Vitii." jufl with the inner world and with that """"""J""" above the clouds, and vihich is seeking consolation con-solation in religious sects. Literature is everywhere the (lower of life; in J?ussia it is, tirst of nil, tho sigh of life. Hut in the sigh of Tolstoy especially during the later jenrs of his crentivencs, there resounds at times n note of despair. He has n peculiarity all his own which is not to be found in other writers. His voico is ii protest before whose mighty blows tho worldly and spiritual foundations of Hussion life are trembling, and yet at tliu samo tinm II up' is in his voice nn expression of submissiveness before the inevitability evil. And it seems as though he is saying to us: "Kverything which is existing, with the exception of Christian ethics, is base and hostilo to us; all dogmas are wrong; the social-political structure struc-ture in which joti now live is a form of violence over the natural stulo of the human soul. Hut nil this evil outside of jou is a temporary evil ngainst which it is not ucHcssary to struggle. Man in general, nnd tha Ittisstnn in particular, bhould Jill the soil, mend his old shoes love his neighbors and read the Bible; in other words, lead the onlv life woith living." Thus Tolstoy unifies within himself the idea of the revolution winch he would not like to attain by way of phvsical violence, with the Biblical idciil which he is seeking nnd which ho wishes 'to establish on earth if ou wih, he is Russia's Itousjcau with an admixture of Slavic intuMii which is near to the belief that real life i beginning only on the other sich? of this life. But, generally speaking, TolMov as a tvpe is purer and nobler than Ron-scati. Tolstov is not only a great w liter, but he is the proelnimer of fioe-doiu, fioe-doiu, a great defcnfler of the persecuted and a powerful preacher of ideals for' all mankind. That is why his enemies aie powerless to do him any harm; thej me liliputians computed with him, and the) can never tear the laurels ftoiu his head. |