The Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo Tolstoy Chapter 7 Page 2

de Caprivi — All Privileges of Ruling Classes Based on Violence — The Increase of Armies up to Point of Universal Service — Universal Compulsory Service Destroys all the Advantages of Social Life, which Government is Intended to Preserve — Compulsory Service is the Furthest Limit of Submission, since in Name of the State it Requires Sacrifice of all that can be Precious to a Man — Is Government Necessary? — The Sacrifices Demanded by Government in Compulsory Service have No Longer any Reasonable Basis — And there is More Advantage to be Gained by not Submitting to the Demands of the State than by Submitting to Them.

Educated people of the upper classes are trying to stifle the ever-growing sense of the necessity of transforming the existing social order. But life, which goes on