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...Complete works of Tolstoy," translated by Professor L. Wiener...
...lecturer, after showing the injurious effects of Tolstoy's teachings in all walks of life, closed with an earnest appeal for the establishment of universalism in literature...
...lecturer now compared at length the work of the three great representatives of the Russian naturalistic school-Tourgenev, Dostoyevsky, and Tolstoy. Differing as novelists they also differed as thinkers. Tourgenev pictures evil wherever he sees it-among the peasants or their masters. He unveils humanity by putting the two social classes side by side. He is one of the most striking examples of the power of art, penetrating to the reader's heart by the power of simple beauty. He first gave the name of "nihilists" to those who acknowledged no authority in anything...
Starting from the same point of individual self-improvement, Tolstoy deprecates collectivity as injurious to self-improvement. The artist and the thinker cohabitate as rivals in his work. Tolstoy during his life has grown to his fullest fame. His "War and Peace" is accepted as a great work by all nations. The basis of his work is non-resistance to evil...
...Sixties." Alexander II. and the emancipation of the serfs. Servitude in the United States and Russia. The three chief representatives of the naturalistic school. Tourgniev. Nihilism. Dostayevsky, his influence on the generation. Count Leo Tolstoy, his teachings. "To 'stoists." Societies and individuals...