If it could be said all at once, by what then would we live in the realm of thought? It will never be given me to go farther than this task. I understand why it is impossible to say it quickly. How good that I didn’t finish the Catechism ! 4 I think I shall write it differently and better, if the Father wishes it. It seems to me, I am approaching a simple and clear expression of that by which I live. 3, I read through all my journals for the past seven years. I lived through much, because in fulfilling a promise to S. It seems to me, I thought little during this time: I wrote a little, chopped wood and was indisposed but lived through much. And in this struggle and in the gradual victory of the higher law over the lower, in this only is life for man and the whole world. The world can be looked upon in this way: a world exists governed by certain, well-known laws, and within this world are beings subject to the same laws, but who at the same time bear in them-selves another law not in accord with the former laws of the world, a higher law, and this law must inevitably triumph within these beings and defeat the lower law. In our understanding of this inner law, the son of God, consists indeed the essence of the Christian doctrine. These words have different meanings, but all from different angles mean one and the same thing. This inner law is what we call reason, conscience, love, the good, God. This freedom consists in this, that we should recognise that which is namely that this inner law is ourselves. In this then consists the freedom of the will. And for this reason we are drawn to fulfil this law and we sooner or later will inevitably fulfil it. This law is different from all the rest, principally in this, that those other laws are outside of us and forces us to obey them but this law is in us and more than in us it is our very selves and there-fore it does not force us when we obey it, but on the contrary frees us, because in following it we become ourselves.
If we did not recognise this law, we would not recognise the others. It can be said that we see and recognise all the other laws only because we have in us this law. Have been thinking one thing: that this life which we see around us is a movement of matter according to fixed, well-known laws but that in us we feel the presence of an altogether different law, having nothing in common with the others and re-quiring from us the fulfilment of its demands. LEO TOLSTOYĢ6, On the Significance of Science and ArtĢ9, Tolstoy on Shakespeare 30, Tolstoy’s Journalģ2, Reminiscences of Tolstoy by Count Ilya Tolstoyģ3, Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy by Sophie Andreevna Tolstoy Tolstoy’s Journal
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