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He has joined the Dukhobortsi; has sold his large estate, and is devoting all the money to their cause. I'm afraid he'll go to some new-world colony, and I shall see little of him henceforth. A great loss to me." Mrs. Borisoff kept her eyes upon him as he spoke, seeming to reflect rather than to listen. "I ought to tell you," she said, "that I don't know Russian.
I wish you could hear a Russian friend of mine speak about it, a rich man who has just given up everything to join the Dukhobortsi. I never knew before what religious passion meant. And it seems to me that this is the world's only hope peace made a religion. The forms don't matter; only let the supreme end be peace. It is what people have talked so much about the religion of the future."
"I am going to drink a silent health that of my friend Korolevitch. To him I owe everything." "I don't believe that, but I will drink it too I was speaking of him to Miss Derwent. She wants to know all about the Dukhobortsi. Instruct her, afterwards, if you get a chance. Do you think her altered?" "No yes!" "By the bye, how long is it really since you first knew her?"
Miss Derwent spoke at once of her interest in the Russian sectaries with whom she had heard Otway was well acquainted, the people called Dukhobortsi, who held the carrying of arms a sin, and suffered persecution because of their conscientious refusal to perform military service. Piers spoke with enthusiasm of these people. "They uphold the ideal above all necessary to our time.
In every century a few men have lived who knew the value of plain living and high thinking, and very often the men who reversed the maxim have passed them the hemlock. All those sects known as Primitive Christians represent variations of the idea Quakers, Mennonites, Communists, Shakers and Dunkards! A Transcendentalist is a Dukhobortsi with a college education.
For some time he belonged to the sect of the Dukhobortsi who are sometimes called the Russian Quakers, and who have recently become known in Western Europe through the efforts of Count Tolstoy on their behalf but he soon seceded from them, because he could not admit their doctrine that God dwells in the human soul, and that consequently the chief source of religious truth is internal enlightenment.
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