# The Kingdom of God Is Within You prints a dated teaching of nonresistance

Date: 1894

## The fact

In 1894 The Kingdom of God Is Within You appeared as [Tolstoy](/people/leo-tolstoy)’s completed teaching of nonresistance to evil by force. It is not the 1908 Letter to a Hindu and not a later ashram rule.

It is one event.

## Context

SEP’s pacifism entry and Britannica independently treat the 1894 book as a principal nonviolence text. Censorship in Russia made foreign print the public carrier. Later Gandhi correspondence is a neighbouring 1908 row.

Leo Tolstoy’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Conventional years are 1828–1910. Surviving public files are later museum pages, collected-works sites, library catalogues, and encyclopedias. Tolstoy did not typeset those later pages.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

SEP’s pacifism article and Britannica independently name the 1894 book as a nonresistance instrument.

Official or archival record: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Pacifism (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pacifism/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

## Significance

Humanitarian-offset path. High confidence on the 1894 print.

## What is established and what is not

Established: the 1894 book teaches nonresistance. Not established: a unique desertion series in any one army caused only by this title.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Leo Tolstoy.

They are not a public rating.

The driver `humanitarian-access` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. Leo Tolstoy did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. A book is not a 1908 letter. Keep Gandhi on the later date. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Leo Tolstoy.
The driver `humanitarian-access` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. Leo Tolstoy did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. A book is not a 1908 letter. Keep Gandhi on the later date. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Leo Tolstoy.

## People

- Leo Tolstoy: https://factrail.ai/people/leo-tolstoy

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pacifism/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-Tolstoy

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/lt-kingdom-of-god-1894