Show I Reading Tolstois letter to the Czar It Is certainly no wonder that he was banished Had he lived fifty years ago and written the same letter he would have been sent to a penal colony In Siberia for life had It been written a H hundred years ago the writer would I have been broken on a wheel Here Is 1 I an extract I speak however not from my own standrolnt but from vours 1 look at the matter from your point of view as Tsar S S S and take tho liberty of givIng your Majesty the following advice lj 1 To revise re-vise and repeal all tho existing stupid repugnant re-pugnant and shameless laws cnjblnln religious re-ligious persecution which have long ceased l to exist In every civilized l country but Russia 2 To stop all prosecutions on account of religious belief nnl restore L to liberty nil those who have been exiled or Imprisoned for their faith 3 To seek a means by which a conflict may be avoided between the religious belief of the Individual and the demands made upon him by the State |