The Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo Tolstoy Chapter 5 Page 2

Continuing to Preserve Inferior Organizations of Life, Leads to Contradictions and Sufferings which Embitter Existence and Must Result in its Transformation — The Contradictions of our Life — The Economic Contradiction and the Suffering Induced by it for Rich and Poor Alike — The Political Contradiction and the Sufferings Induced by Obedience to the Laws of the State — The International Contradiction and the Recognition of it by Contemporaries: Komarovsky, Ferri, Booth, Passy, Lawson, Wilson, Bartlett, Defourney, Moneta — The Striking Character of the Military Contradiction.

There are many reasons why Christ's teaching is not understood. One reason is that people suppose they have understood it when they have decided, as the Churchmen do, that it was revealed by supernatural means, or when