Such are the women, who, having fulfilled their destiny, reign over powerful men; such are the women who prepare the new generations of people, and fix public opinion: and, therefore, in the hands of these women lies the highest power of saving men from the prevailing and threatening evils of our times. Yes, ye women and mothers, in your hands, more than in those of all others, lies the salvation of the world! Footnotes: {21a} The fine, tall members of a regiment, selected and placed together to form a showy squad. {21b} [] Omitted by the Censor in the authorized edition printed in Russia, in the set of Count Tolstoi's works. {24a} Reaumur. {24b} A drink made of water, honey, and laurel or salvia leaves, which is drunk as tea, especially by the poorer classes. {28} [] Omitted by the censor from the authorized edition published in Russia in the set of count Tolstoi's works. The omission is indicated thus . . . {39} _Kalatch_, a kind of roll: _baranki_, cracknels of fine flour. {59} An _arshin_ is twenty-eight inches. {60} A _myeshchanin_, or citizen, who pays only poll-tax and not a guild tax. {62} Omitted in authorized edition. {66} Omitted by the censor in the authorized edition. {94} Omitted by the Censor in the authorized edition. {96} Omitted by the Censor in the authorized edition. {99} Omitted by the Censor in the authorized edition. {108} Omitted by the Censor from the authorized edition. {111} Omitted by the Censor in the authorized edition. {113} Omitted by the Censor in the authorized edition {116} Omitted by the Censor in the authorized edition. {122a} Omitted by the Censor in the authorized edition. {122b} A very complicated sort of whist. {124} The whole of this chapter is omitted by the Censor in the authorized edition, and is there represented by the following sentence: "And I felt that in money, in money itself, in the possession of it, there was something immoral; and I asked myself, What is money?" {135} Omitted by the Censor in the authorized edition. {138} Omitted by the Censor in the authorized edition. {139} The above passage is omitted in the authorized edition, and the following is added: "I came to the simple and natural conclusion, that, if I pity the tortured horse upon which I am riding, the first thing for me to do is to alight, and to walk on my own feet." {140} Omitted in the authorized edition. {142} Omitted in the authorized edition. {152a} "Into a worse state," in the authorized edition. {152b} Omitted in the authorized edition. {154} Omitted in the authorized edition. {155} Reaumur. {158} In the Moscow edition (authorized by the Censor), the concluding paragraph is replaced by the following:--"They say: The action of a single man is but a drop in the sea. A drop in the sea!