AMERICAN INFLUENCES IN SLAVIC LITERATURES 519 



The indebtedness of certain passages in his Resurrection to Henry 

 George, whom he even mentions by name, are too obvious to need 

 any proof. If we know by inference that Tolstoy's religious ideas were 

 to some extent affected by Parker and Channing, we are quite certain 

 that in his The Kingdom of God is within you he is directly under 

 obligation to the American non-resistants, Garrison, Ballou, and the 

 Quakers, whom he does not fail to give the credit for their influence 

 upon him. To this may be added his occasional mention of some 

 American author, of whom he seems to cherish Thoreau most. But 

 to none of these, it seems to me, is Tolstoy more akin than to Walt 

 Whitman, with whom, in spite of the vastest difference of tempera- 

 ments, he shares the broadest conception of the brotherhood of man. 

 Such, in brief, are the influences that have for a century been exerted 

 by American thought, not merely literature in the narrower sense, 

 upon the literary movement of the Slavic countries, especially upon 

 Russia. Much still remains to be done in this practically untouched 

 field, before the exact indebtedness to the United States can be 

 ascertained. On the other hand, we can now begin to speak also of 

 a Slavic influence upon America, such as, for example, has been ex- 

 erted by the Russian novel on some of the American writers. This, 

 too, would form an interesting subject for investigation. 



