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INTRODUCTION.


Of what Labor consists:

The peasant Bondareff inspired the social theories of Tolstoï,—the two laws of humanity, that of manual labor for men, that of motherhood for women.

Tolstoï's review of Bondareff.

The Bible and the Gospel.

How the theory of manual labor should be interpreted. The working of the land: a remedy for social evils. Extent and consequences of this theory.

The book of Bondareff. Remarks on its translation.

Labor is the work of Count Lyof Tolstoï and of the peasant Timothy Bondareff. But it is not, properly speaking, a collaboration. The book is in fact composed of two different studies, which are as two parts of one book: one by Lyof Tolstoï, entitled The Work and Theory of Bondareff, which serves as introduction to the

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