Chesterton, And Other Essays
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What will he do if the world is perverse and wreaks personal vengeance up>on him? Nothing at all. If he be smitten on the one cheek, what then? There will be another cheek to be presented. He considers that vengeance and retaliation are his rights. God must look [136] after such things. Tolstoi entrenches him- self behind the words of Christ, and will not be dislodged. The skepticism of the day does not touch him. The finer-spun Christian theories which try to make prin- ciples rational to an O...ccidental mind, he is not interested in. He draws no distinction between an Eastern and a Western mind.
He makes no allowance for the growing complexity of our civilization, and what we think is the need of the figurative interpreta- tion of some things. To him, Christ is not so much idealist as realist, and Christ is not dreaming so much of what the world will be in the future as to what it ought to be now.
If we declare that with the adherence to this principle the sense of justice would vanish, and that men must be taught to do right even though they are punished to this end, then Tolstoi will simply turn a deaf ear to our statement.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
What will he do if the world is perverse and wreaks personal vengeance up>on him? Nothing at all. If he be smitten on the one cheek, what then? There will be another cheek to be presented. He considers that vengeance and retaliation are his rights. God must look [136] after such things. Tolstoi entrenches him- self behind the words of Christ, and will not be dislodged. The skepticism of the day does not touch him. The finer-spun Christian theories which try to make prin- ciples rational to an O...ccidental mind, he is not interested in. He draws no distinction between an Eastern and a Western mind.
He makes no allowance for the growing complexity of our civilization, and what we think is the need of the figurative interpreta- tion of some things. To him, Christ is not so much idealist as realist, and Christ is not dreaming so much of what the world will be in the future as to what it ought to be now.
If we declare that with the adherence to this principle the sense of justice would vanish, and that men must be taught to do right even though they are punished to this end, then Tolstoi will simply turn a deaf ear to our statement.
What to read after Chesterton, And Other Essays?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by William Thompson Scott to read onlineMoreLess
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