“There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation.”

—  Leo Tolstoy , book Anna Karenina

Pt. VIII, ch. 19
Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)

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