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But even though Tolstoyism will not serve as a means of solving the great social problems, it supplies a helpful method of social criticism.

From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Heller, Otto

Happily, when it came to dragging in Tolstoyism, and Dostoievskyism even, and making of the movement something moral and political almost, the connection was seen to be ridiculous and was duly cut.

From Since Cézanne by Bell, Clive