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Title: "Bethink Yourselves"

Author: Leo Tolstoi

Translator: V. Tchertkoff

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Language: English

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"BETHINK YOURSELVES!"

BY
LEO TOLSTOI

PUBLISHED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL UNION
GINN & COMPANY, BOSTON
1904

Reprinted from the _London Times_

Translated by V. Tchertkoff, Editor of the _Free Age Press_,
and I. F. M.

"BETHINK YOURSELVES!"

"This is your hour, and the power of darkness."--Luke xxii. 53.

I

Again war. Again sufferings, necessary to nobody, utterly uncalled for;
again fraud; again the universal stupefaction and brutalization of men.

Men who are separated from each other by thousands of miles, hundreds of
thousands of such men (on the one hand--Buddhists, whose law forbids the
killing, not only of men, but of animals; on the other hand--Christians,
professing the law of brotherhood and love) like wild beasts on land and
on sea are seeking out each other, in order t