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We Came This Way · August 23, 1945 · 27 min · 3,790 words
The transcript of “Tolstoi - Pacifist Revolutionary”, an episode of We Came This Way first broadcast August 23, 1945. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). We Came This Way plays We Came This Way free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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Down the long path of history, trampling across centuries and continents and the graves of kings and the necks of dictators, seeking always a way of life where the people have their freedom, believing, praying, fighting, dying, we came this way.
The NBC University of the Air, a public service feature of the National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations, For 82 years Leo Tolstoy lived upon this earth. From 1828 to 1910 and his death stunned the world.
All men felt the loss. All men, for one paralyzed moment in time, felt like orphans under the vast, and the world of the world of the world. All men, for one paralyzed moment in time, felt like orphans under the vast, All men, for one paralyzed moment in time, felt like orphans under the vast, inexplicable
silence in the sky. Few men in their lifetime could seize an empire, as once he was a dog by the scuff of its neck, and shake it with a giant anger until justice was shaken loose from it.
Few men, a handful, and Count Leot Tolstoy was one of them. The time is the last decade of the nineteenth century. The fame of Tolstoy told like a great bell across the world. He is all things to all men, to the revolutionist, to the great enemy of the Russian aristocracy, to the religious dissenter, to the true teachings of Christ, to men of letters, to the supreme
literary artists of the world, and to the ministers of his imperial majesty, Tsar Alexander III, is dangerous. He is 63 years old. His eyes are quick and piercing. His white patriarchal beard gives him the appearance of a biblical prophet.
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