What Shall We Do & Why Do Men Stupify Themselves

Leo Tolstoy became very interested in love and relationships. He saw the world around him much like it is now as the world is filled with emptiness (if you pardon the ironic phrase). And yet he felt within him a draw and yearning and yes an inner knowledge that there is more and that there are answers to our questions. Let us be diligent that inner light says as if together within ourselves we have all we need or ever would need to find the way forward. This is a paraphrase in my own words of the attitude of these later works by Leo Tolstoy the great Russian novelist -- and great thinker -- regardless of region. The volume includes two works the first 100000 words of which is the treatise What Shall We Do perhaps a more accessible work to be acquainted with Tolstoy's soul-searching and concerns of systematic contemporary life. The second work is a shorter yet worthy essay providing insights as the title suggests. This edition has been lovingly and carefully edited by Alan Lewis Silva.