Status Updates From Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy...

in the depth of his soul the firm and quiet conviction inherited from his forefathers, and common to all labourers on the land, that just as in the world of plants and animals nothing ceases to exist, but continually changes its form, the manure into grain, the grain into a food, the tadpole into a frog, the caterpillar into a butterfly, the acorn into an oak, so man also does not perish, but only undergoes a change.

in his views on religion, never thinking about metaphysical questions, about the origin of all origin, or the future life. God was to him, an hypothesis, which he had had no need of up to now. He had no business with the origin of the world, whether Moses or Darwin was right…. how the world had originated did not interest him, just because the question how it would be best to live in this world was ever before him.

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