What Men Live By and Other Tales Story 3 - The Coffee-House of Surat

from The Tolstoy Library · host Leo Tolstoy

In which a gathering of travellers of diverse lands and creeds convenes in a bustling coffee-house at Surat to debate the nature of God and the true path to salvation, each affirming the superiority of their own faith with passionate conviction. Yet amidst the clashing voices, a quiet student of Confucius offers a parable that gently reveals the folly of pride and the boundless light of a universal divinity that transcends human division.

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