Alice Beal Parsons, The Dial (1923)
“ In assaying sin and virtue, it must be added, he is strictly orthodox, seeing morals rather as code of thou shalt nots let down on a scroll from heaven, than as an evolution of taboos and rules of conduct, changing not a little from one century to another. ”
Alice Beal Parsons, The Dial (1923)
“ Yet as a perfect specimen of an intellect concerned with sin one flaw may be found—his desire to prove the main thesis of his book. To him the Revolution is not the product of long accruing, intolerable social injustice, but a retribution for the sinful personal lives of Russian people in general and in particular of the Russian intellectuals, who in their degenerate and pitiable condition even flirted fatuously with the ideas of the pimply, womanish, thievish, and otherwise execrable revolutionaries. ”
Alice Beal Parsons, The Dial (1923)
“ THE obsession of certain types of intellect by sin deserves a study it has never received. One might expect to find it confined largely to men whose thinking was formulated before the development of the jungle of theories and observed facts which we call psychology, but Alexey Tolstoy offers a modern instance. ”
