Oakeshott's Last Shot

On salvation and the individual soul

Tolstoy famously opens Anna Karenina with the claim that all happy families are alike, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Myself, I have always been rather inclined to agree with the objection lodged by Dorothy Sayers’ Duchess of Denver, mother of aristocrat detective Lord Peter Wimsey, when she suggests that Tolstoy has got this the wro…