Tolstoy's Emblems (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Tolstoy's Emblems Tolstoy's Emblems have always given peculiar pleasure to the mind of the present writer, during his many years of reading it has been his custom to note them, and they are here collected and classified for the benefit of others. For the general reader, they may be found an interesting introduction to the works themselves, for the student, compact summaries of vast fields of thought, worlds of ideas focussed into brief, bright figures, for preachers and teachers, tools for their workshops and feathers for their arrows. The topical index at the end will facilitate this use. The headings of the paragraphs correspond with the index. The italicised sentence within brackets [] gives the line of argument illustrated by the Emblem that follows it. Connected with the exposition of his principles in this way, the Emblems will be found to contain almost the whole gospel according to Tolstoy. His books have been given to the world in such variety of form that it may be convenient to find also, at the end, a list of Editions from which the extracts are taken. "By Miracles and Similitudes" (says The Eldest in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister) "a new world is opened up. Those make the common extraordinary, these the extraordinary common." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.