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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. Нет ничего более недостойного разумного существа, как то, чтобы плакаться на то, что то, что наши отцы считали истиной, оказалось ложью.
Не лучше ли искать новых основ единения, таких, которые заменили бы прежние.
4. Nothing is more unworthy of a rational being than to lament that what our fathers held to be truth has turned out to be falsehood.
Is it not better to seek new foundations of unity, such as would take the place of the old ones?
From What is Religion? A Vindication of Neo-Materialism, in Further Reliques of Constance Naden · reworded by Tolstoy (more).
What changed“A new principle of cohesion which will bind together the observed facts of life” becomes “new foundations of unity, such as would take the place of the old ones”: a principle that binds the facts of life becomes a ground of union that replaces the old; “to spend life in idle lamentations” becomes “to lament,” and “we or our fathers” becomes “our fathers.”
What Tolstoy read · The Message of Man: A Book of Ethical Scriptures, gathered by Stanton CoitWhy not set to work to discover a new principle of cohesion which will bind together the observed facts of life?
Constance Naden, Further Reliques, p. 131
Source text: archive.orgMartineau’s own wordsHe has simply given up one shelter, one inspiration, one set of motives, without gaining anything in return.
… or more unworthy of a rational being, than to spend life in idle lamentations because what we or our fathers once believed to be true has now proved to be false.
Why not set to work to discover a new principle of cohesion which will bind together the observed facts of life?
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. What is Religion? A Vindication of Neo-Materialism, in Further Reliques of Constance Naden (1891), ed. George M. McCrie (London: Bickers and Son, 1891), p. 131.
The words are Constance Naden's, signed «Мартино» by Tolstoy. Coit's The Message of Man prints them as nos. 6–7 of ch. LXXXVI, credited to Naden's Further Reliques, p. 131; no Martineau passage stands in that chapter, so Coit does not show how the signature arose. Tolstoy changes them. 'Surely nothing can be more unmanly, or more unworthy of a rational being' loses 'unmanly'; 'to spend life in idle lamentations because what we or our fathers once believed to be true has now proved to be false' becomes «плакаться на то, что то, что наши отцы считали истиной, оказалось ложью» (to lament that what our fathers held true has turned out false), without 'spend life' and 'we or'. 'Why not set to work to discover a new principle of cohesion which will bind together the observed facts of life?' becomes «Не лучше ли искать новых основ единения, таких, которые заменили бы прежние» (Is it not better to seek new grounds of union, such as would replace the former ones?): Naden's principle that binds together the facts of life becomes a ground of union that replaces the old ones. The vol. 42 commentary lists no correction of this signature; its name index refers «Мартино» to Harriet Martineau. The excerpt begins at 'or more unworthy' because the scan breaks 'nothing-' at a line end.