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[https://thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/courses/new-york/love-is-a-weapon-gandhi-tolstoy-kallenbach-and-nonviolence/ by Adeola Enigbokan BROOKLYN INSTITUTE for SOCIAL RESEARCH] | [https://thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/courses/new-york/love-is-a-weapon-gandhi-tolstoy-kallenbach-and-nonviolence/ by Adeola Enigbokan BROOKLYN INSTITUTE for SOCIAL RESEARCH] | ||
During these years in South Africa, Gandhi formed friendships with the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy and Prussian-Jewish architect, Hermann Kallenbach. Out of their unlikely friendship, Kallenbach and Gandhi founded the Tolstoy Farm, a retreat which acted as a laboratory for experimenting with techniques of nonviolence both as theory and as a practical way of living. | During these years in South Africa, Gandhi formed friendships with the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy and Prussian-Jewish architect, Hermann Kallenbach. Out of their unlikely friendship, Kallenbach and Gandhi founded the Tolstoy Farm, a retreat which acted as a laboratory for experimenting with techniques of nonviolence both as theory and as a practical way of living. | ||
=====Tolstoyan movement===== | |||
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolstoyan_movement by WIKIPEDIA] | |||
Tolstoy expressed "great joy" that groups of people "have been springing up, not only in Russia but in various parts of Europe, who are in complete agreement with our views."[1] However, the author also thought it was a mistake to create a specific movement or doctrine after him, urging individuals to listen to their own conscience rather than blindly follow his. In regard to a letter he received from an adherent, he wrote: | |||
