Tolstoy attacks the positivist argument that a division of labour justifies scholars and artists in living free of physical work. Men of science and art, he says, have become a privileged circle holding a monopoly, serving the comfortable rather than the labouring majority, and true science and art must return to the service of all humanity.
A provocative essay from Tolstoy’s later moral writings, in Isabel Hapgood’s translation. Download the free EPUB.