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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: in grossest superstition? It is impossible--but yet their life!
their life! It is normal. It is happy! It is an answer to the
question!
Little by little, Tolstoy came to the settled conviction--he says
it took him two years to arrive there--that his trouble had not
been with life in general, not with the common life of common
men, but with the life of the upper, intellectual, artistic
classes, the life which he had personally always led, the
cerebral life, the life of conventionality, artificiality, and
personal ambition. He had been living wrongly and must change.
To work for animal needs, to abjure lies and vanities, to relieve
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