The Kingdom of God Is Within You - The Original Classic Edition. Tolstoy (graf) Leo

his Happiness

       Ensues from Love of God, whom he Recognizes as Love within himself.

       Now I will speak of the other view of Christianity which hinders the true understanding of it--the scientific view.

       Churchmen substitute for Christianity the version they have framed of it for themselves, and this view of Christianity they regard as the one infallibly true one.

       Men of science regard as Christianity only the tenets held by the different churches in the past and present; and finding that these tenets have lost all the significance of Christianity, they accept it as a religion which has outlived its age.

       To see clearly how impossible it is to understand the Christian teaching from such a point of view, one must form for oneself an

       idea of the place actually held by religions in general, by the Christian religion in particular, in the life of mankind, and of the significance attributed to them by science.

       Just as the individual man cannot live without having some theory of the meaning of his life, and is always, though often unconsciously, framing his conduct in accordance with the meaning he attributes to his life, so too associations of men living in similar conditions--nations--cannot but have theories of the meaning of their associated life and conduct ensuing from those theories. And as the individual man, when he attains a fresh stage of growth, inevitably changes his philosophy of life, and the grown-up man

       sees a different meaning in it from the child, so too associations of men--nations--are bound to change their philosophy of life and the conduct ensuing from their philosophy, to correspond with their development.

       The difference, as regards this, between the individual man and humanity as a whole, lies in the fact that the individual, in forming