What I Believe by Leo Tolstoy ~ Full Audiobook [religion]
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Cruelty and the Law of Christ
For one individual to obtain any advantage in life another must suffer, which is against human nature. Cruelty only exercised thanks to our complicated social machinery when it can be so divided among a number that none shall bear the sole responsibility or recognise how unnatural all cruelty is. If once we cease to affirm that the evil we are so used to and profit by is an immutable divine truth, we may see clearly which is the more natural to man, violence or the law of Christ. All my joys and pleasures are obtained at the price of the misery, depravity and suffering of millions. To know that every dainty morsel I put into my mouth or give my children is obtained at the
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