[284] The literary work conceived and written by Tolstoi only in 1902: The Legend of the Destruction of Hell by Christ and Its Resurrection by the Devils, arranging the teaching of Christ so that it improve the evil life of people. [285] As in the copy at the disposal of the editors. [286] Michail Fedorovich Gulenko, serving in the department of the Moscow-Kursk Railroad, and at this time one of the most active contributors to _Posrednik_. [287] Leopold Antonovich Sullerzhitsky, later one of the managers of the Moscow Artistic Theatre. In the Tolstoi family he was often called for short, Suller. [288] A poem by V. D. Liapunov, printed at first with a letter by Tolstoi in the magazine, _Russkaia Mysl_ (1898, No. 1): and later in the book, _V. D. Liapunov, a Young Poet_, “Library of Leo Tolstoi,” edited by P. I. Biriukov, Moscow, 1912. [289] In _Paths of Life_ Tolstoi expresses this thought more exactly: “That which we consider for ourselves as evil, is in most cases a good which is not yet understood by us.” In another place he says in speaking of the same problem: “We must distinguish between our conceptions of evil in general, ‘objective’ evil, as philosophers say, an outer one, and between evil for each man individually, a ‘subjective’ evil, an inner one. There is no objective evil. Subjective evil is a departure from reason, it is indeed death.” (A combination, _The Four Gospels Harmonized, Translated and Studied_, Chapter III.) See also Journal of May 28, 1896, thought 1. [290] _One word illegible._ Note by Prince Obolensky in the copy in possession of the editors. [291] To avoid misunderstanding as to whom this remark of Tolstoi’s refers, it is proper here to cite an extract from another one of his writings: “They say that defence is impossible under non-resistance; but the Christian does not need any defence. All that an evil-doer can do is to deprive one of property, to kill, and a Christian is not afraid of that. The Christian not worrying about what to eat, what to drink, what to wear, and knowing that without the will of the Father not a hair will fall from his head, the Christian has no need to use violence against the evil-doer. The evil-doer can do nothing to him.” (From the rough draft of _The Kingdom of God Within Us_, 1890–1893, with later corrections by Tolstoi made during a revision of his _Complete Collection of Thoughts_.) [292] Jean Grave, a contemporary French writer, of anarchical tendencies. [293] Shortly before that, February 14, 1898, Tolstoi wrote to V. G. Chertkov: “About myself I can say that I would be satisfied with my spiritual state, if I were not dissatisfied with my small external output. The causes are: Ill health, as well as the bustle of city life (although now for about three days I have been well).” [294] The twentieth, the concluding chapter of _What Is Art?_ is devoted to a criticism of contemporary science from the standpoint of Christian philosophy.