[21] See the _Russian Proprietor,_ or see in _Confessions,_ the strongly idealised view of these men, simple, good, content with their lot, living serenely and having the sense of life: or, at the end of the second part of _Resurrection,_ that vision "of a new humanity, a new world," which appeared to Nekhludov when he met the workers returning from their toil. [22] "A Christian should not think whether he is morally superior or inferior to others; but he is the better Christian as he travels more rapidly along the road to perfection, whatever may be his position upon it at any particular moment. Thus the stationary virtue of the Pharisee is less Christian than that of the thief, whose soul is moving rapidly towards the ideal, and who repents upon his cross." (_Cruel Pleasures_.) INDEX (_The names of characters and titles of books are in italics._) ALEXANDRA, Tolstoy's aunt Ancestry, Tolstoy's Analysis, self- _Andrei Bolkonsky, Prince_ _Anna Karenin_ (novel) _Anna Karenin_ (character) Arabian Nights Art-- Attacks on modern Tolstoy's conception of His ignorance of His religious ideal of art Christian art extinct The art of the future Endowment of Mission of Austerlitz BACH Bachkirs, the _Bagration_ Beethoven Bers family, the Bers, S. A., 179 Bers, Sophie, _see_ Countess Tolstoy Besoukhov, Pierre Bloody Sunday Böcklin Boyer, Paul _Boyhood_ Brahms Breton, Jules Brothers, Tolstoy's _Brush with the Enemy, A_ Bylines CAUCASUS, Tolstoy joins Army of the Census, the, Tolstoy assists in taking Chavannes, P. de Childhood, Tolstoy's _Childhood, Boyhood, Youth_ Begun in the Caucasus Tolstoy's later opinion of See _Boyhood_ and _Youth_ China, Tolstoy's admiration for, Christ, Tolstoy's conception of _Concordance and Translation of the Four Gospels,_ _Confessions,_ _Cossacks, The,_ Countess Tolstoy-- Character and abilities As model Letter to Creed, Tolstoy's Crimea, transference to the _Criticism of Dogmatic Theology_ Criticism of art, destructive _Cycle of Readings_ _DEATH OF IVAN ILYITCH, THE_ _Decembrists, The_ (a projected novel) _Diary of a Sportsman,_ _Diary of Prince D. Nekhludov_ Dmitri Tolstoy Death of Don Quixote Dostoyevsky Dreyfus Affair, the Droujinine EDUCATION, Tolstoy's ideas concerning _End of a World, The_ England, Tolstoy contemplates retiring to _Erochta,_ the old Cossack Execution, effect of a public FAITH, Tolstoy's, brings no happiness Family, Tolstoy's Family dissensions _Family Happiness_ Father, Tolstoy's Feminism, Tolstoy's attitude towards Flaubert's opinion of Tolstoy's work