“Tolstoy was occupied by a continuous pilgrimage”

— Robert Hunter (author)

Source: Why We Fail as Christians (1919), p. 32
Context: Tolstoy was occupied by a continuous pilgrimage to all fountains of knowledge, to all systems of religions, and to all manner of men in pursuit of Truth. He could not find it in the Church, nor in Science, nor in Art, nor among the rich, nor among the learned. But he did find it in the lives of the lowly and the suffering—in the Doukhobors, in Soutaieff, in Bóndaref, and in Jesus the carpenter.

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American sociologist, author, golf course architect 1874–1942

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