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...Tolstoy. His letters to Caucasia decreed vegetarianism, communal property, no alcohol, no tobacco, no soldiering, no sexual intercourse. These decrees made the Dukhobors more fanatical than ever. The Cossacks tried harder to lash them into submission. Over this persecution Tolstoy, Quakers, Christian Socialists, idealists everywhere seethed, then arranged a Dukhobor migration to the untilled Canadian prairies...
...when entering Canada and were exempt from military service. They protested by ingrained habit long after oppression disappeared. They could not comprehend that Canada was not Tsardom, redcoated Mounties not Cossacks, census-takers not conscription officers, homestead laws not a landlord's tyranny. All Dukhobor benefactors (including Tolstoy) were soon fed up, regretted having burdened Canada with them. Said their former friends: "The sect ... is self-centred, self-righteous, and intolerant." "No more impenetrable group of people exist...
...this point, with the wholehearted sympathy of at least some readers, Jorgen Thestrup mysteriously disappears, and Madame. Dorthea divides her time between her children, household duties, settling the estate, and flashbacks on her married life. All these domesticities are reported in an abundance which Tolstoy could have made wonderful and which Sigrid Undset's high-grade Dorothy Dix tone of voice makes tedious...
...described by the prophets as Satan or the Tempter. Craving, a low state of creative energy, is the root of rebellion, and rebellion likewise is a state of sin or death. The technique by which the hostile power of the world is "bound" is broadly similar to Tolstoy's or Gandhi's nonresistance of evil...
...days life for St. Petersburg's upper crust was a wild melee of tempestuous music and passionate romance. From these Director Dreville has compounded "Kreutzer Sonata." As in Tolstoy's story the characters are carefree debauchees who tinkle champagne glasses to Beethoven's music. Thus Jean Yonnel, as Dimitri Pozdnycheff the irrestible rake, makes eyes at his creditor's wife while that gentleman removes the furniture, and reforms by going home to make love to the country lasses. American tabloid readers can fill in the rest of the plot: true love, questioned virtue, and a scheming horse-faced violinist...