The Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo Tolstoy Chapter 12 Page 93

And so all these people feel no uneasiness as to who is at the head of the organization, they will adapt themselves to anyone; they only dread the downfall of the organization itself, and that is the reason — though often an unconscious one — that they support it.

One often wonders why independent people, who are not forced to do so in any way, the so-called �LITE of society, should go into the army in Russia, England, Germany, Austria, and even France, and seek opportunities of becoming murderers.

Why do even high-principled parents send their boys to military schools? Why do mothers buy their children toy helmets, guns, and swords as playthings? (The peasant's children never play at soldiers, by the way). Why do good men and even women, who have certainly no