ARKA PUBLISHING HOUSE,
George Town, MADRAS.
The
RELATIONS OF THE SEXES
BY
COUNT LEO TOLSTOY
Translated by V. T. and A. C. F., Principally from
private letters, diaries and unpublished Mss.
Price Re. 1.
Some Extracts.
Women who demand masculine work and liberty equal to that of man are generally unconsciously demanding the liberty of License, and in consequence descend to a plane lower than the family one, while imagining they are ascending higher....
I think that a man who has entered upon physical connection with a woman cannot, and must not, forsake her especially when there is or may be a child....
Chastity is an ideal after which one should always; under all conditions, strive. The nearer you are realising it the more you—not to say attain a merit before God—attain a greater degree of your own well being. Man may serve God more by being chaste than by giving himself up to carnal life....
Attacks of sexual lust engender confusion of thought. The absence of thought rather—the whole world darkens. Man loses his relation to it—chance, blackness and failure....
One thing is rational: “Be perfect, as your Father”, and this perfection is in purity and then in Love, deduction: first, purity, then preservation of the race....