In the East, and especially in India, Tolstoy’s beliefs seem still to be very much alive. Gandhi regarded himself as a humble follower, and his tremendously effective civil disobedience campaign stemmed in large measure from Tolstoy’s teaching. And Sarvodaya, the mass movement today headed by Acharya Vinoba Bhave, a disciple of Gandhi, aims at the creation of a social order based on the Tolstoyan principle of love inspired by non-resistance or non-violence.
–Ernest J. Simmons, Introduction to Tolstoy’s Writings, 207
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