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WHAT SHALL WE DO?
=The Free Age Press= is an earnest effort to spread those deep
convictions in which the noblest spirits of every age and race have
believed--that man's true aim and happiness is "unity in reason and
love"; the realisation of the brotherhood of all men: that we must all
strive to eradicate, each from himself, those false ideas, false
feelings, and false desires--personal, social, religious,
economic--which alienate us one from another and produce nine-tenths of
all human suffering.
Of these truly Christian and universally religious aspirations the
writings of Leo Tolstoy are to-day perhaps the most definite expression,
and it is to the production of very cheap editions of his extant
religious, social and ethical works, together with much unpublished
matter and his new writings, to which we have special access (being in
close touch with Tolstoy), that we are at present confining ourselves.
We earnestly trust that all who sympathise will continue to assist us by
every means in their power, and help to make the publications yet more
widely known. It is Tolstoy's desire that his books shall not be
copyrighted, and as we share this view, all =Free Age Press=
translations and editions (with one, as yet unavoidable exception), are
and will be issued free of copyright and may be reprinted by anyone. We
have already commenced to collect all Tolstoy's essays into more
permanent cloth-bound volumes.
Suggestions, inquiries, offers of help and co-operation will be
gratefully welcomed. For the hundreds of sympathetic letters and the
practical help in making known and circulating the books which we have
received already, we are very grateful, and tender our hearty thanks.
Orders and commercial communications should be addressed to "=The Free
Age Press=" _English Branch_, 13, Paternoster Row, London, E.C. All
other communications to the "Editor of the Free Age Press,"
Christchurch, Hants.
VLADIMIR TCHERTKOFF, _Editor_.
THOMAS LAURIE, _Publisher_.
Revised and Corrected Translation
WHAT SHALL WE DO?
By LEO TOLSTOY
Edited by A.C.F.
and I.F.M.
NO RIGHTS RESERVED
THE FREE AGE PRESS
13 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
Uniform with this Volume.--
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