Excerpt from War and Christianity From the Russian Point of View: Three Conversations The young man's distinctive tone In thought was Opposition to positivism, humanitarianism and the ideas of Western civilisation, and throughout his student days he propounded in many arguments a lively belief in Russia and the Russian idea, in orthodoxy and mysticism. But with all his brilliance he was also an industrious scholar. He graduated in 1873, and gave many Of the succeeding years of youth to research and study. He held a professorship for a short while, but gave up his chair in 1882, and the remaining eighteen years of his life were devoted almost entirely to literary work. 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.