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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: parison is fatal to the new writers. In Dickens as in Pushkin the shortest piece is carefully conceived, elaborated and polished. There is no greater enemy of aristocracy in art than your humble servant?myself. Yet I must say that when art was supported and patronized by aristocrats the artists made all efforts to appeal to the refined tastes of those patrons of art, but when the masses became the patrons of art the artists, in their desire to appeal to the masses, have lost their refinement. There is a saying, 'You must appreciate the opinion of the stupid people, for they are always in the majority.' And this is the rule by which present-day writers are guided. Personally, though I appreciate it, I am against such forms of art as that of Dickens. I believe in the art that should be for the masses, but I cannot see even the symptoms of it as yet. I asked Tolstoy to express his views on the Jewish question in Russia. Most of the things ascribed to me as my expressions on this question are exaggerated. To me all questions are solved by my religious view of life. All people are alike. Thereforethere can be no such thing as a Jewish question. It is as if you asked me about the Russian question, the German question, or the Japanese question. There is no Jewish question, no Polish question, no Russian question? all people are brethren. It is very sad and painful if we must make an effort to realize this. if there are any bad traits in the Russian Jew they were called forth by the horrible persecutions to which we have subjected them. How do I account for the anti-Jewish feeling in Russia? We often dislike more those whom we harm than those who harm us. This is exactly true of the attitude of the Russians toward the Jews. At dinner Tolstoy brought up the Jewish question ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217908160 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217908160 |
| Weight | 0.37 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.25 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 104 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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