The slavery of our times

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AN acquaintance of mine who works on the Moscow-Kursk Railway as a weigher, in the course of conversation mentioned to me that the men who load the goods on to his scales work for thirty-seven hours on end.

This little book shows, in a short, clear, and systematic manner, how the principle of Non‐Resistance, about which Tolstoy has written so much, is related to economic and political life.

Nearly fifteen years ago the census in Moscow evoked in me a series of thoughts and feelings which I expressed, as best I could, in a book called What Must We Do Then?

Aa acquaintance of mine, who serves on the Moscow-Kursk Railway as a weigher, in the course of conversation mentioned to me that the men who load the goods on to his scales work for thirty-six hours on end.