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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: teaching.
And so he adopted all the usual sophistries which go to prove
that a single human reason cannot know the truth, that the truth
is only revealed to an association of men, and can only be known
by revelation, that revelation is kept by the church, etc. And so
he managed to be present at prayers, masses for the dead, to
confess, make signs of the cross in front of icons, with a quiet
mind, without being conscious of the lie, and to continue in the
service which gave him the feeling of being useful and some
comfort in his joyless family life. Although he believed this, he
felt with his entire being that this religion of his, more than
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