Posted by:
Dallin Ox
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Date: June 14, 2021 09:39PM
The Tolstoy thing was published in "Marvelous Work and a Wonder" by that renowned intellectual, LeGrand Richards. Richards in turn pulled it from a 1939 Improvement Era article.
Essentially, the IE said that a mormon Cornell student said that a former prez of Cornell said that Tolstoy complimented the church. So it's what, a 3rd or 4th-hand account? Where is any room for doubt?
Then Richards dishonestly spun Tolstoy's *conditional* praise (by ignoring the word "unmodified") into a confident prediction of the *inevitable* destiny of the church as "the greatest power the world has ever known."
https://archive.org/details/improvementera4202unse/page/n31/mode/2up