Reminiscences of Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy | ||
XXVI
"Some of the words used in church are amazingly obscure: what meaning is there, for instance, in the words: 'The earth is God's and the fullness thereof.' That is not Holy Scripture, but a kind of popular scientific materialism."
"But you explained the words somewhere," said Suler.
"Many things are explained. . . . 'An explanation does not go up to the hilt.'"
And he gave a cunning little smile.
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