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EARLY DAYS OF MARRIED LIFE
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land.’ Absolutism does not interfere with, but rather favours, this order of things.”

These are the germs of ideas developed by Tolstoy so powerfully in his later works. Already we see here the beginning of his sympathy with Henry George’s idea of land nationalisation by the Single Tax system, which Tolstoy defended till his death.