Word: tolstoyans
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...smart retort to, "Do you want a fight?" is still, of course, "Sir, I am a Tolstoyan...
...small part of each member's product to common needs, such as farm equipment. Cooperative societies, however, both for marketing the district's product and for securing credit, are universally found throughout the provinces of Russia. The peasant whom Tolstoy believed he understood so well, has rejected Tolstoyan collectivism, but one good result of the feverish uproar of the last six years endures the closer cooperation of the peasant-farmers through local cooperative societies...
...declaring that he disbelieves in anarchism and polygamy, and, once inside, he must also disbelieve in communism. In Japan it is illegal to express disbelief in the divinity of the Mikado. It will thus be seen that a voyage around the world is a perilous adventure. A Mohammedan, a Tolstoyan, a Bolshevik, or a Christian cannot undertake it without at some point becoming a criminal or holding his tongue about what he considers important truths. This, or course, applies only to steerage passengers; saloon passengers are allowed to believe whatever they please...
...courage and sincerity of the Little Englanders like Campbell-Bannerman and Lloyd-George, who had opposed the Boer War, has been paralleled or surpassed by the vindication of the same qualities in a man who opposed England's entrance into the World War, who, although not a Tolstoyan pacifist, would take no part in recruiting meetings, and who was constantly on th watch for an opportunity for peace...