Chapter VI: Nihilism and Mysticism.―tolstoï (3)

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Transcriber’s Note:

This book was written in a period when many words had not become standardized in their spelling. Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation in the text. These have been left unchanged. Obsolete and alternative spellings were left unchanged.

Words and phrases in italics are surrounded by underscores, _like this_. Those in bold are surrounded by equal signs, =like this=. Footnotes were lettered sequentially and were moved to the end of the chapter. Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, reversed order, or partially printed letters and punctuation, were corrected. Final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added. Missing or duplicate letters at line endings were added or removed, as appropriate. Extraneous punctuation was removed.

The following were changed:

added omitted word,‘on,’ to text (line 1436)
‘wook’ to ‘work’ (line 2397)
‘axamples’ to ‘examples’ (line 2790)
‘discourged’ to ‘discouraged’ (line 2877)