The Pathway of Life, Volume 1

Leo Tolstoy

Translated by Archibald J. Wolfe

137 chapters · about 5 h

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The opening

FAITH

In order to live right, man must know what he ought to do, and what he ought not to do. In order to know this, he needs faith. Faith is the knowledge of what man is, and for what purpose he lives with the world. And such is the faith which has been and is held by all rational people.

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About this edition

The words
Archibald J. Wolfe's English translation, copied word for word.
Left out
  • Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 8 places
  • The cover and spine lettering of the scanned copy (title and author), read by the OCR (5 blocks)
  • Pictures and their captions
  • The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 3 places
  • The copyright line
  • Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 2 places
  • The scanning library's accession number stamped on the dedication page
  • A preface, foreword or afterword
  • The scanning library's stamp and call number (University of California, Southern Regional Library Facility) (5 blocks)
  • A speck on the page read by the OCR as “/”, standing alone