THE COMPLETE WORKS OF COUNT TOLSTÓY VOLUME XX. [Illustration: The Yellow Peril _Photogravure after Original Design by Emperor William II._] THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU CHRISTIANITY AND PATRIOTISM MISCELLANIES By COUNT LEV N. TOLSTÓY Translated from the Original Russian and Edited by LEO WIENER Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages at Harvard University [Illustration: Tolstoy] BOSTON--DANA ESTES & COMPANY--PUBLISHERS EDITION DE LUXE Limited to One Thousand Copies, of which this is No. ____ _Copyright, 1905_ BY DANA ESTES & COMPANY _Entered at Stationers' Hall_ Colonial Press: Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co., Boston, Mass., U. S. A. CONTENTS PAGE THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU 1 CHRISTIANITY AND PATRIOTISM 381 REASON AND RELIGION 459 PATRIOTISM OR PEACE 467 LETTER TO ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY 481 INTRODUCTIONS TO BOOKS A. STOCKHAM'S TOKOLOGY 499 AMIEL'S DIARY 501 S. T. SEMÉNOV'S PEASANT STORIES 506 WORKS OF GUY DE MAUPASSANT 509 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE THE YELLOW PERIL (_p. 477_) _Frontispiece_ WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON 6 RUSSIAN PEASANTS AT MASS 75 CHURCH OF VASÍLI THE BLESSED, MOSCOW 85 MALÉVANNIANS 395 ALEXANDER III. 449 THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU Or, Christianity Not as a Mystical Teaching but as a New Concept of Life 1893 THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU Or, Christianity Not as a Mystical Teaching but as a New Concept of Life And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free (John viii. 23). And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell (Matt. x. 28). Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men (1. Cor. vii. 23). In the year 1884 I wrote a book under the title, _My Religion_. In this book I really expounded what my religion is. In expounding my belief in Christ's teaching, I could not help but express the reason why I do not believe in the ecclesiastic faith, which is generally called Christianity, and why I consider it to be a delusion. Among the many deviations of this teaching of Christ, I pointed out the chief deviation, namely, the failure to acknowledge the commandment of non-resistance to evil, which more obviously than any other shows the distortion of Christ's teaching in the church doctrine.