Labor: The Divine Command - Softcover

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CONTENTS Introduction, by Amedee Pages Of What Labor Consists The peasant Bondareff Inspired the Social Theories of Tolstoy - The Two Laws of Humanity: that of Manual Labor for Men, that of Motherhood for Women - Tolstoy's Review of Bondareff - The Bible and the Gospel How the Theory of Manual Labor should be Interpreted - The Working of the Land, a Remedy for Social Evils - Extent and Consequences of this Theory The Book of Bondareff - Remarks on its Translation Labor, by Leo Tolstoy and Timothy Bondareff First Part Labor and Bondareff's Theory, by Count Leo Tolstoy Second Part Labor, According to the Bible, by the peasant Bondareff I. Introduction - Life of Bondareff - Object of His Work II. Labor According to the Bible Appendices Love and Labor Bondareff's Will The principal reason for presenting to the world a translation of Labor is that it possesses great value, not only as showing Tolstoy's own views, but as displaying the great intelligence belonging to the reform that he advocated Bondareff's work is the simple but profound effort of an uneducated peasant, who stammeringly proclaimed in 1881 the great reform of which Tolstoy subsequently became the champion and herald.