And in our day, after the series of events mentioned above has put an end to 'Oriental' quiescence, in our days, when the consciously reactionary ideas of the Vekhi-ists - reactionary in the narrow class, selfishly class sense - have become so enormously widespread among the liberal bourgeoisie when these ideas have infected even a section of the quasi-Marxists and have created a 'liquidatorist' trend - in our days, every attempt to idealize Tolstoy's doctrine, to justify or to mitigate his 'non-resistance', his appeals to the 'Spirit',his exhortations for moral self-perfection, his doctrine of 'conscience' and universal 'love' his preaching of asceticism and quietism, and so forth, causes the most direct and most profound harm.