Monks said all that Tolstoy says; they poured out lucid lamentations about the cruelty of battles and the vanity of revenge.

But the Tolstoyans are not quite right enough to run the whole world; and in the ages of faith they were not allowed to run it.

The world did not lose the last charge of Sir James Douglas or the banner of Joan the Maid.

And sometimes this pure gentleness and this pure fierceness met and justified their juncture; the paradox of all the prophets was fulfilled, and, in the soul of St.Louis, the lion lay down with the lamb.

But remember that this text is too lightly interpreted.
It is constantly assured, especially in our Tolstoyan tendencies, that when the lion lies down with the lamb the lion becomes lamb-like.