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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: sport.
To attune the Anglo-Saxon reader's mind to
sympathy with a mentality so alien to his own,
requires that Tolstoy's environment should be de-
scribed more fully than most of his biographers
have cared to do. This prefatory note aims,
therefore, at being less strictly biographical than
illustrative of the contributory elements and cir-
cumstances which sub-consciously influenced Tol-
stoy's spiritual evolution, since it is apparent that
in order to judge a man's actions justly one must
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