Lev tolstoy short story

In the town of Surat, in India, was a coffee-house where many travellers

and foreigners from all parts of the world met and conversed.

One day a learned Persian theologian visited this coffee-house. He

was a man who had spent his life studying the nature of the Deity,

and reading and writing books upon the subject. He had thought,

read, and written so much about God, that eventually he lost his