John Kuti
John Kuti
Aug 8, 2017 · 1 min read

Are we really to see the generals and their orders as the representatives of rationality here? When the soldiers are sent into the battlefield, to be subjected to cannon and rifle-fire, Tolstoy says that they began to act in favour of self-preservation and run away from it. That’s a very sensible and modern response.

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English teacher in Saint Petersburg, Russia