Quote:
Prudence and justice tell me that in electricity and steam there is more love for man than in chastity and abstinence from meat.
Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
Categories: mankind; electricity; vegetarianism
Attribution: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904), Russian author, playwright. Letter, March 27, 1894, to his editor and friend, A.S. Suvorin. Complete Works and Letters in Thirty Volumes, Letters, vol. 5, p. 284, “Nauka” (1977).
Reevaluation of Tolstoyan principles that previously attracted him.
