How "Resist not Evil" Would Work.

Evening Star, Issue 8405, 5 January 1891, Page 3

How "Resist not Evil" Would Work.

Count Tolstoi's latest story is entitled * Work While Ye Have the Light,' and in it the moralist and preacher submerge the novelist. The framework of the story is of the slightest, serving (says W. T. Stead) bb a very slender thread on which to hang various dissertations as to the advantages and disadvantages of reconstituting society on an extreme Quaker basis. Towards the close of the book he sets forth at length bis doctrine that what he calls the Pagan weapons of vengeance, punishment, and violence are absurdly inefficacious. Crime can only be extirpated by the unhesitating adoption of the literal meaning of the order " Resist not evil." HOW TO EXTIKPATE CRIME. We take away all motive for crime, for robbery and murder, solely by refusing to take for ourselves more than what is strictly indispensable for the support of life, and by giving up to others all our free labor. Thus it is that we never tempt others by the sight of accumulated wealth, for wo rarely possess more than is absolutely necessary for our day's support. Hence, if a man who is driven to despair by the pains of hunger., and is ready to commit a crime in order to procure a crust of bread, comes to us, he will find what he is in search of without having recourse to crime or violence, inasmuch as we live for the purpoßo of sharing our last morsel of food, our last shred of clothes, with those who are suffering from hunger and cold. And the result is that one class of criminals avoid us altogether, while the others conio over to uh, lind salvation, abandon their criminal lifo, and little by little become useful workers, toiling like the others for the common good of all mankind.

Criminal acts of savage violence are never prevented by lawn. The individual about to commit them ia in a state of animal irresponsibility—perfect freedom from all moral restraints—and thus blinded and swayed by his passion he is utterly incapable of gauging the effects or weighing the resultß of his actions. An obstacle only serveß to fan the flame of bis passion. Laws, therefore, are perfectly useless as instruments for suppressing such crimes. Our method of meeting them is efficacious. We believe that man will never attain the satisfaction and the aim of life by ministering to his passions, or anywhere except within himself—in his own soul.

maker, for an improved water-engine $ Charles James Jutson and Frederick Abraham Poupard, both of London, for improvements in shoes for horses or other hoofed animah; William Adams, mice mannger, Lawrence, for saving fine gold pasting over tab'es; John Lcchhead, Dansandel, for an improved gorae cutting machine) Reuben Hallenstein, tf Melbourne, for apparatus for working fireproof doors for closing lift openings and other aperture* in floors of buildings; William Edward Gomel Osbo no, Auckland, for a temporised support for rifle tights,

Empress Frederick has purchased tho former residence of Martin Luther for a charitable institution in memory of her husband, In Paris, out of 2,700,000 residents, it is calculated that 1 in 18, or 150,000, live on charity with a tendency towards crime, In London the proportion is 1 in 30. Since bull-fighting has become one of the fashionable amusements of Paris, jewels of Spauish design have acquired considerable popularity (says the ' Jewellers' Weekly'), At Hickling (England), recently, a woman aged sixty-seven years was killed by a ram, The riba were broken in fifteen places,