The Law of Love and The Law of Violence

Synopsis

An examination of the conflicts within and among nations, this treatise proposes a remedy based on true christian doctrine: recognition of love as the supreme law of life. Written just before world war i, it articulates tolstoy's famous dictum that it is morally superior to suffer violence than to do violence—a philosophy that has inspired gandhi, martin luther king, jr., and countless others. Famed for such popular novels as war and peace and anna karenina, tolstoy experienced a religious crisis at the age of fifty.