Women have always recognised the power of men over them. And it could not have been otherwise in an unchristian world. Men are the stronger and men have ruled. It was the same in all the worlds (with the exception of the doubtful Amazons and the law of maternity), and it is the same now among .0999 of mankind. But Christianity has appeared and has recognised perfection not in strength but in love, and by this all the subjected, the captive, the slaves and the women have been freed. But that the freedom of slaves and women be not a calamity, it is necessary that the freed be Christians, i.e., that they affirm their life in the service of God and people, and not in the service of themselves. Slaves and women are not Christians, and nevertheless they are freed. And they are terrible. They act as the main-spring of all the calamities of the world. What must be done? Bring slaves and women back again into slavery? That is impossible to do, because there is no one who will do it: Christians cannot subject. And non-Christians will no longer surrender themselves into slavery, but will fight. They will fight among themselves and one or the other will subject and hold the Christians in slavery. What must be done? One thing must be done: attract people to Christianity, turn them into Christians. It is possible to do this only by fulfilling in life the law of Christ. Help me, Lord. Help me. Come into me, awake in me. _Apr. 13. Moscow. If I live._ _To-day April 27. Grinevka._[303] The 3rd day here. I am all right. A little indisposed.... The latter days in Moscow I spent finishing _Carthago delenda est_. I am afraid I have not finished it, and that it is still before me. Still I did quite a lot. Here I have not worked at all. The misery of the famine is by far not as great as it was in 1891. There are so many lies in all the affairs among the upper classes, everything is so tangled up with lies that it is never possible to answer any question, simply--for instance, is there a famine? I am going to try to distribute as well as I can the money which has been contributed. Yesterday there was a conversation about the same thing: Is exclusive love good? The résumé is this: a moral man will look on exclusive love,--it is all the same whether he be married or single--as on evil and will fight it; the man, who is little moral, will consider it good and will encourage it. An entirely unmoral man does not even understand it and makes fun of it. The _Russkia Viedomosti_ was suspended because of the Dukhobors and of me; that is too bad and I am grieved.[304] 1) The proverb: for a good son you do not have to make a fortune, for a bad one, do not leave one.