The Kingdom of God is Within You, 1893

It is this essay that biographers believe had a big impact on both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. It picks up where some of Tolstoy’s earlier religious essays leave off and explains why the teachings of Jesus on what to do and how to live are not just effective but the only possible future for humanity. It also argues that violent revolution is doomed to failure, that military approaches to feuds is profitless in every respect and that non-violent resistance is the only way.