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...Gandhi has read many a book. In his autobiography, where he called Tolstoy's book on of the two most important in his life, he wrote: "The one book that brought about an instantaneous and practical transformation in my life was [Ruskin's] Unto This Last...
...failed to point out that Gandhi is in a real sense a spiritual child of New England. In the very first chapter of The Kingdom of God Is Within You, which Gandhi read with such avidity in his South African days, Tolstoy refers to ... The Catechism of Non-Resistance, written by the Rev. Adin Ballou (1803-1890), who more than 100 years ago founded and became the first president of Hopedale (Socialist) Community in Hopedale, Mass. . . . Gandhi's "passive resistance" is just Ballou's "nonresistance" under another name. LEWIS O. HARTMAN Resident Bishop Methodist Church Boston...
Author Cary is an Irish-born, Oxford-educated writer who has been widely acclaimed in England. The Moonlight is the second of his eleven novels to be published here. Readers may conclude that some English critics, who compare him to Tolstoy and Fielding, are overenthusiastic. But The Moonlight is superior to most of the fiction on the stands these days...
...British friend lent him Count Leo Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God is Within You. The Russian Christian's doctrine of nonviolent resistance to unjust rule gripped the Hindu lawyer's mind. "Young birds," wrote Tolstoy, ". . . know very well when there is no longer room for them in the eggs. ... A man who has outgrown the State can no more be coerced into submission to its laws than can the fledgling be made to re-enter its shell...
...Tolstoy exclaimed, "had only once learned not to judge and think so sharply and decisively, and not always to give answers to questions which are only put in order that they may remain forever questions!" Thomas Mann echoes him: "Even at the risk of being called vacillating, I hold to my policy of the free hand [in a period] which has . . . taken up a position of reaction against classic rationalism and intellectualism." In place of decisive answers, readers of these essays will find a series of rich, undogmatic examinations that rank with the finest of their...