Adin BallouАдин Балу
1 passage and 1 weekly readingотрывков: 1, недельных чтений: 1
Each date opens its day beside the list, with these passages marked.Каждая дата открывает свой день рядом со списком, где отрывки этого автора отмечены.
4. Один человек не должен убивать. Если он убил, он преступник, он убийца. Два, десять, сто человек, если они делают это, они убийцы. Но государство или народ может убивать сколько он хочет, и это не будет убийство, а хорошее, доброе дело. Только собрать побольше народа, и бойня десятков тысяч людей становится невинным делом. Но сколько именно нужно людей для этого? Вот в чем вопрос. Один не может красть, грабить, но целый народ может. Но сколько именно нужно для этого? Почему один, десять, сто человек не должны нарушать законы бога, а очень много могут?
4. One man must not kill. If he has killed, he is a criminal, he is a murderer. Two, ten, a hundred men, if they do it, are murderers. But a state or a nation may kill as many as it likes, and this will not be murder, but a good, kind deed. Only gather enough people together, and the slaughter of tens of thousands of people becomes an innocent affair. But exactly how many people are needed for this? That is the question. One man may not steal or rob, but a whole nation may. But exactly how many are needed for this? Why must one, ten, a hundred men not break the laws of God, while very many may?
From How Many Does It Take? · reworded by Tolstoy (more).
What changedBallou’s opening question, how many it takes “to annul the commandments of God,” becomes the closing one, the argument’s conclusion.
Adin Ballou’s own wordsHow many does it take to annul the commandments of God, and render that lawful, which HE has forbidden? How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness?
One man must not kill. If he does it is murder. Two, ten, one hundred men, acting on their own responsibility, must not kill. If they do, it is still murder. But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it is no murder. It is just, necessary, commendable and right. Only get people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly innocent.
But how many does it take? This is the question. Just so with theft, robbery, burglary, and all other crimes.
Non-Resistance Tract No. II
Source text: web.archive.orgTolstoy’s own version · «Царство Божие внутри вас»Один человек не должен убивать. Если он убил, он преступник, он убийца. Два, десять, сто человек, если они делают это, — они убийцы.
Почему 1, 10, 100 человек не должны нарушать закона бога, а очень много могут?
Source text: ru.wikisource.orgDetails
The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. How Many Does It Take? (Non-Resistance Tract No. II, Hopedale, Community Press); Tolstoy's Russian of it in «Царство Божие внутри вас» (1893), ch. I, The tract's first three paragraphs.
The Circle takes Tolstoy's own Russian of 1893 almost word for word. Against Ballou's English it is shortened and reordered: 'If he does it is murder' becomes 'he is a criminal, he is a murderer'; 'acting on their own responsibility' and 'It is just, necessary, commendable and right' are left out; so are man-stealing, the nation that robs a city, the ministers who pray for it, and the paragraphs on Texas and on Alexander's pirate; and Ballou's opening question, 'How many does it take to annul the commandments of God, and render that lawful, which HE has forbidden?', becomes Tolstoy's closing one. The English is the Friends of Adin Ballou's transcription of the Hopedale tract (adinballou.org, saved from the Wayback Machine); no scan of the printed tract was found, and the transcription gives no date. January 22 is one of the days from which the censor removed thoughts in the 1906 first edition (Jubilee vol. 42, § on the editions); the commentary does not say which thoughts, and whether this was one of them was not established.
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