What Leo Tolstoy thinks about energy
Russian novelist and moral philosopher (1828 to 1910); author of War and Peace and The Kingdom of God Is Within You.
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1 dated position, c. 1897–1898, in their own words. Our reading of what Leo Tolstoy has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsHundreds of thousands of workmen,—carpenters, masons, painters, joiners, paperhangers, tailors, hairdressers, jewellers, moulders, type-setters,—spend their whole lives in hard labour to satisfy the demands of art, so that hardly any other department of human activity, except the military, consumes so much energy as this.
↗What Is Art? (1897-1898; Aylmer Maude translation)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book