RonPrice says:
In its scope, breadth and realistic depiction of 19th-century Russian life, this book stands at the peak of realist fiction. My world view is a Baha’i one, not the Baha’i one but a Baha’i one. the activity of the intellect and the senses, creative will and imagination has much to do with the world I see and live in. This is partly the romantic temperament speaking. The evil I see in the world is not so much due to stupidity, as Tolstoi saw it, but man’s lower nature which manifests itself in many ways of which stupidity is but one.Health is certainly at the core of my Weltanschauung, for I know what life is like when one of these three key ingregients is missing. For years, like Lawrence, Maupassant and Blake, I saw sexual love and the fuel of sexual activity as a sort of nirvana. Still, Tolstoi's emphasis on education to remove stupidity can take us a long way