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Negative: The late, great Count Leo Tolstoy, novelist and seer...
...Years ago I debated this problem with Count Tolstoy," he began. "I maintained to Tolstoy that one must be allowed to defend himself. He said: 'No. We should not resist evil, men. If another Genghis Khan should come along and we defend ourselves, we would only anger him and more of us would become his victims. If we did not resist, he would kill a few, but soon desist...
...formulated the problem differently from Tolstoy, thus: If any aggressor falls upon me, a situation will occur in which one of us-according to Count Tolstoy- will be killed. But if one of us is to be killed it should be the attacker. To defend one's self is morally permissible. A strong man does not threaten but is prepared...
Among famed Bahai communicants are: Queen Marie of Rumania; Count Ilya Tolstoy, son of the late great Russian novelist; Zog I of Albania...
Civic REPERTORY THEATRE-Moliére, Goldoni, Tolstoy, Anet, Chekhov, Ibsen, Barrie, depending on the night...