This book is an introduction to the high humanitarian ideas of the great Russian writer and philosopher Leo Tolstoy. It was inspired by the portrait reproduced on the cover dustjacket. The inscription on the portrait was written, in Russian, by Alexandra Lvovna Tolstoy, youngest daughter of the world famous writer and presented to the author, Michael Levin, on the occasion of his visit to her in 1977 at her home in upstate New York. In translation, the inscription reads: My father once said: "Believing gives soulful peace; sense of divine soul gives power." These words of his have always helped me in life. And I am happy that you helped people -- tourists -- when they came to bow their heads at his grave. Thank you! -- Alexandra Tolstoy (92 years). 18 February 1977.