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A Letter to a Hindu by Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy
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coercion. They are not merely weak but absolutely invalid, yet
they are so much needed by those who occupy privileged positions
that they believe in them as blindly as they formerly believed in
the immaculate conception, and propagate them just as
confidently. And the unfortunate majority of men bound to toil
is so dazzled by the pomp with which these 'scientific truths'
are presented, that under this new influence it accepts these
scientific stupidities for holy truth, just as it formerly
accepted the pseudo-religious justifications; and it continues to
submit to the present holders of power who are just as
hard-hearted but rather more numerous than before.



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__Who am I? I am that which thou hast searched for since thy baby
eyes gazed wonderingly upon the world, whose horizon hides this
real life from thee. I am that which in thy heart thou hast
prayed for, demanded as thy birthright, although thou hast not
known what it was. I am that which has lain in thy soul for
hundreds and thousands of years. Sometimes I lay in thee
grieving because thou didst not recognize me; sometimes I raised
my head, opened my eyes, and extended my arms calling thee either
tenderly and quietly, or strenuously, demanding that thou shouldst
rebel against the iron chains which bound thee to the earth.__

KRISHNA.

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