The Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo Tolstoy Chapter 12 Page 7

the Iniquity of our Life, and would Long Ago have Transformed it if it had not been Dissimulated by Hypocrisy — But Seem to have Reached the Extreme Limits of Hypocrisy, and we Need only Make an Effort of Conscience to Awaken as from a Nightmare to a Different Reality.

5. Can Man Make this Effort? — According to the Hypocritical Theory of the Day, Man is not Free to Transform his Life — Man is not Free in his Actions, but he is Free to Admit or to Deny the Truth he Knows — When Truth is Once Admitted, it Becomes the Basis of Action — Man's Threefold Relation to Truth — The Reason of the Apparent Insolubility of the Problem of Free Will — Man's Freedom Consists in the Recognition of the Truth Revealed to him. There is no Other Freedom — Recognition of Truth Gives Freedom, and