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Foreword xiof a universal brotherhood brought about, not by socialism andrevolution, but by the full and perfect realization of Christianenlightenment.In the serener circumstances of his last years, Dostoyevsky’sessential love of life and joy in all God’s creation found a surerexpression than ever before. “Beauty,” he makes Dmitri Karamazovsay, “is not only a terrible thing, it is also a mysterious thing.There God and the devil strive for mastery, and the battlegroundis the heart of men.”I continue to marvel at the chance – if chance it was – wherebythe works of one of the greatest Christian writers of modern timesshould have continued to circulate in the world’s first avowedlyatheistic state – Dostoyevsky’s devastatingly penetrating expositionof sin and suffering and redemption. Supposing one wereasked to name a book calculated to give an unbeliever today aclear notion of what Christianity is about, could one hope to domuch better than The Brothers Karamazov?Malcolm Muggeridge