Transcribed from the 1887 Tomas Y. Crowell edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org [Picture: Public domain cover] WHAT TO DO? THOUGHTS EVOKED BY THE CENSUS OF MOSCOW BY COUNT LYOF N. TOLSTOÏ _TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN_ BY ISABEL F. HAPGOOD NEW YORK THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO. 13 ASTOR PLACE 1887 COPYRIGHT, 1887, BY THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO. ELECTROTYPED AND PRINTED BY RAND AVERY COMPANY, BOSTON. TRANSLATOR’S NOTE. Books which are prohibited by the Russian Censor are not always inaccessible. An enterprising publishing-house in Geneva makes a specialty of supplying the natural craving of man for forbidden fruit, under which heading some of Count L. N. Tolstoi’s essays belong. These essays circulate in Russia in manuscript; and it is from one of these manuscripts, which fell into the hands of the Geneva firm, that the first half of the present translation has been made. It is thus that the Censor’s omissions have been noted, even in cases where such omissions are in no way indicated in the twelfth volume of Count Tolstoi’s collected works, published in Moscow. As an interesting detail in this connection, I may mention that this twelfth volume contains all that the censor allows of “My Religion,” amounting to a very much abridged scrap of Chapter X. in the last-named volume as known to the public outside of Russia. The last half of the present book has not been published by the Geneva house, and omissions cannot be marked. ISABEL F. HAPGOOD BOSTON, Sept. 1, 1887 THOUGHTS EVOKED BY THE CENSUS OF MOSCOW. [1884–1885.] And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then? He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise—LUKE iii. 10. 11. Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!