From a letter dated September 24, 1888:
"(Tolstoy's book 'My Religion') must be a very interesting one, it seems to me. In the end, we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and will want to live—more musically. How will this come about, and what will we discover? It would be nice to be able to prophesy, but it is even better to be forewarned, instead of seeing absolutely nothing in the future other than the disasters that are bound to strike the modern world and civilizations like so many thunderbolts, through revolution, or war, or the bankruptcy of worm-eaten states.”Subscribe to Praeterita in a reader