The Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo Tolstoy Chapter 6 Page 75

them. They are amazing people truly, but those who, like De Vog�� and others, who, professing the doctrine of evolution, regard war as not only inevitable, but beneficial and therefore desirable — they are terrible, hideous, in their moral perversion.

The others, at least, say that they hate evil, and love good, but these openly declare that good and evil do not exist. All discussion of the possibility of re-establishing peace instead of everlasting war — is the pernicious sentimentality of phrasemongers. There is a law of evolution by which it follows that I must live and act in an evil way; what is to be done? I am an educated man, I know the law of evolution, and therefore I will act in an evil way. “ENTRONS AU PALAIS DE LA GUERRE.” There is the law of evolution, and therefore there is neither