Transcribed from the 1887 Tomas Y. Crowell edition by DavidPrice, 
Public domain cover
WHAT TO DO?
THOUGHTS EVOKED BY THE CENSUS
OF MOSCOW
by
COUNT LYOF N. TOLSTOÏ
translatedfrom the russian
By ISABEL F. HAPGOOD
NEW YORK
THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.
13 Astor Place
1887
Copyright, 1887,
By THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.
electrotypedand printed
BY RAND AVERY COMPANY,
boston.
TRANSLATOR’S NOTE.
Books which are prohibited by the Russian Censor are notalways inaccessible.  An enterprising publishing-house inGeneva makes a specialty of supplying the natural craving of manfor forbidden fruit, under which heading some of Count L. N.Tolstoi’s essays belong.  These essays circulate inRussia in manuscript; and it is from one of these manuscripts,which fell into the hands of the Geneva firm, that the first halfof the present translation has been made.  It is thus thatthe Censor’s omissions have been noted, even in cases wheresuch omissions are in no way indicated in the twelfth volume ofCount Tolstoi’s collected works, published in Moscow. As an interesting detail in this connection, I may mention thatthis twelfth volume contains all that the censor allows of“My Religion,” amounting to a very much abridgedscrap of Chapter X. in the last-named volume as known to thepublic outside of Russia.  The last half of the present bookhas not been published by the Geneva house, and omissions cannotbe marked.
ISABEL F. HAPGOOD
Boston, Sept. 1, 1887
THOUGHTS EVOKED BY THE CENSUS OF MOSCOW. [1884–1885.]
And the people asked him, saying, What shall we dothen?
He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, lethim impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let himdo likewise—Luke iii. 10.11.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth andrust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neithermoth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not breakthrough nor steal:
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye besingle, thy whole body shall be full of light.
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full ofdarkness.  If therefore the light that is in thee bedarkness, how great is that darkness!
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one,and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despisethe other.  Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, whatye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, whatye shall put on.  Is not the life more than meat, and thebody than raiment?—Matt. vi.19–25.
Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, Whatshall we drink?  Or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for yourheavenly Father kno                        
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