The principal reason for presenting to the world a translation of Labor is that it possesses great value, not only as showing Tolstoi's own views, but as displaying the great intelligence belonging to the reform that he advocated. Bondarefl's work is the simple but profound cflort of an uneducated peasant, who stammer ingly proclaimed in 1881 the great reform of which Tolsto'i subsequently became the cham pion and herald.

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