One would have to look long and without success, I think, to find in the writings of Tolstoy, or even in the literature of modern socialism, anything… - Robert Hunter

While seeking his true relation to the infinite, Tolstoy was also seeking his true relation to mankind.

Whatever knowledge of the question is manifested herein comes largely from my work in a variety of movements intended either to diminish the number of dependents or to ameliorate the conditions of poverty.

The fundamental thing in all this is that every workman who is expected by society to remain independent of public relief and capable of self-support must be guaranteed, in so far as that is possible, an opportunity for obtaining those necessaries essential to physical efficiency. Such a standard is the basis of almost everything; for, unless men can retain their physical efficiency, they must degenerate.