 Addams found Tolstoy’s pacifism inspiring. She admired how Tolstoy sympathized with revolutionaries in the 1870s but did not compromise his moral convictions because of these sympathies. Tolstoy offered a doctrine of non-resistance that sought to substitute moral energy for physical force. Addams once again did not accept Tolstoy’s pacifist ideas uncritically. For example, she questioned the clarity of the categories (moral energy versus physical force) that Tolstoy created in his doctrine of non-resistance (TYH 195). Addams also asked whether Tolstoy reduced social issues too simplistically, albeit eloquently. Despite her less than pleasant meeting with him, Addams cited Tolstoy as a positive moral example throughout her life. However, like all her influences, she could not accept Tolstoy’s philosophy uncritically. Addams had to adapt and infuse her insight to make it work for the society she was a part of.