Excerpt from The Journal of Leo Tolstoi, Vol. 1: 1895-1899 But when the men of the Sixties were making that answer for themselves, and had won the first great step toward the change - the abolition of serfdom - Tolstoi was away altogether from his native land writing that great epoch of the War of 1812 War and Peace. It was because this great soul was. Undogmatic, and reached out into the world not by mass thinking, but marvellously enough entirely by himself, laying his roots far and deep, that he seemed so slow moving. Yet it was the direction and the end that counted, and the end finds him, like the race between the tor toise and the hare that he is still ahead. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.