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Bethink Yourselves!

Leo Tolstoy

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As Russia goes to war against Japan, Tolstoy urges those at all levels of society, from the Tsar down to the common soldier, to consider their actions in the light of Christ's teaching.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .eling of a murderer, who, having begun to kill his victim, and feeling in the depths 9 of his soul the guilt of his act, proceeds to try to stupefy or infuriate himself, to be able the better to complete his dreadful deed. All the unnatural, feverish, hot-headed, insane excitement which has now seized the idle upper ranks of Russian society is merely the symptom of their recognition of the criminality of the work which is being done. All these insolent, mendacious speeches about devotion to, and worship of, the Monarch, about readiness to sacrifice life (or one should say other people's lives, and not one's own); all these promises to defend with one's breast land which does not belong to one; all these senseless benedictions of each other with various banners and monstrous ikons; all these Te Deums; all these preparations of blankets and bandages; all these detachments of nurses; all these contributions to the fleet and to the Red Cross presented to the Government, . . . Read More

Community Reviews

This book is a crusade against the blood lust and the joy to kill out of arrogance and out of selfishness. It, the book, reveals to what extent the author, Tolstoy, is an immaculate man. He can't sting others because he knows that God has sent him to this life to help others and give them a hand ins

Hmm...This book got me thinking, I suppose you can say I've Bethink myself. I agreed with a good bit, I myself could never be a part of the military and think most wars in history were unjust and yet I still cannot go as far as he does. Sometimes one is stuck between two evils and must choose the le

Well ,I cannot but admire this book because it has a very profound message that assures a certain deliverance of men from all the calamities which they inflict upon themselves ,and from the most dreadful of all - war and the slaughter of human race - . Tolstoy thinks that is attainable by a simple a

Insofar as this conflict of the Russo-Japanese War, I would definately have to side with Tolstoy that the Russian expansionist policies were far too overly ambitious and costly especially with regard to human life. Russia has been notorious for its careless treatment of its soldiers as fodder. Addit

This book is 12 chapters of love and tolerance. This is an invitation to the modern world today, which brought up isis and all the blood thirsty gangs. We really need an angelic thinker just like Tolstoy. May God bless his soul.

Read this as a primary source for a presentation I had to give in one of my graduate classes. Very interesting and highly thought-provoking, although it was written in 1904 a lot of what Tolstoy had to say still rings true today.

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