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The Project Gutenberg eBook, What To Do?, by Count Lyof N. Tolstoi, Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: What To Do? thoughts evoked by the census of Moscow Author: Count Lyof N. Tolstoi Release Date: December 27, 2007 [eBook #3630] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHAT TO DO?*** Transcribed from the 1887 Tomas Y. Crowell edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org WHAT TO DO? THOUGHTS EVOKED BY THE CENSUS OF MOSCOW BY COUNT LYOF N. TOLSTOI _TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN_ BY ISABEL F. HAPGOOD NEW YORK THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO. 13 ASTOR PLACE 1887 COPYRIGHT, 1887, BY THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO. ELECTROTYPED AND PRINTED BY RAND AVERY COMPANY, BOSTON. TRANSLATOR'S NOTE. Books which are prohibited by the Russian Censor are not always inaccessible. An enterprising publishing-house in Geneva makes a specialty of supplying the natural craving of man for forbidden fruit, under which heading some of Count L. N. Tolstoi's essays belong. These essays circulate in Russia in manuscript; and it is from one of these manuscripts, which fell into the hands of the Geneva firm, that the first half of the present translation has been made. It is thus that the Censor's omissions have been noted, even in cases where such omissions are in no way indicated in the twelfth volume of Count Tolstoi's collected works, published in Moscow. As an interesting detail in this connection, I may mention that this twelfth volume contains all that the censor allows of "My Religion," amounting to a very much abridged scrap of Chapter X. in the last-named volume as known to the public outside of Russia. The last half of the present book has not been published by the Geneva house, and omissions cannot be marked. ISABEL F. HAPGOOD BOSTON, Sept. 1, 1887 ARTICLE ON THE CENSUS IN MOSCOW. [1882.] The object of a census is scientific. A census is a sociological investigation. And the object of the science of sociology is the happiness of the people. This science and its methods differ sharply from all other sciences. Its peculiarity lie
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