“Tolstoy, while sympathizing with the industrial workers, believed that they ought not to organize in trade unions and he opposed strenuously nearly every form of action advocated by working-class organizations.”

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Source: Why We Fail as Christians (1919), p. 72

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American sociologist, author, golf course architect 1874–1942

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