David ThomasДавид Томас
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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.
5. Мы в мире подобны ребенку, который вошел в комнату, где ученый человек говорит о своей науке. Ребенок не слышал начала и уходит прежде конца. Он услыхал кое-что, но не понял того, что услыхал. Великая речь бога начата много веков прежде, чем мы начали свое учение, и будет продолжаться и тогда, когда мы будем прахом. Мы слышали только часть ее и не поняли большую часть того, что слышали. Но все-таки, хотя и немного и смутно, но мы поняли что-то великое и торжественное.
5. In the world we are like a child who has come into a room where a learned man is speaking about his science. The child has not heard the beginning and leaves before the end. He has heard something, but has not understood what he heard. The great discourse of God was begun many centuries before we began our learning, and it will go on even when we are dust. We have heard only a part of it, and have not understood the greater part of what we heard. But all the same, though only a little and dimly, we have understood something great and solemn.
From Problemata Mundi: The Book of Job Exegetically and Practically Considered · reworded by Tolstoy (more).
What changedThomas’s “though little it is something,” “something that proves the existence of a capacity to receive,” the point of his homily, becomes “though only a little and dimly, we have understood something great and solemn.”
What Tolstoy read · Suggestive Thoughts on Religious Subjects, compiled by Henry SouthgateWe only hear a part, and much of that we understand not ; still, though little, it is something — something great, solemn, suggestive, sanctifying, something that proves the existence of a capacity to receive.
Source text: archive.orgDavid Thomas’s own wordsWe are in the universe like a child who enters a lecture-room when a profound philosopher is in the midst of a discourse on some great branch of science, and who leaves before the subject has concluded : his ear received a little, and all it received he understood not.
God's great discourse commenced ages before we entered the scene of knowledge, and will go on when we are in the dust.
We only hear a part, and much of that we understand not ; still though little it is something— something great, solemn, suggestive, sanctifying — something that proves the existence of a capacity to receive.
Source text: archive.orgDetails
The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Problemata Mundi: The Book of Job Exegetically and Practically Considered (1878), Homily IX 'The First Speech of Eliphaz to Job: Man's Fellowship with the Unseen World', Homily IX, on Job 4:12–21, section I, on man's capacity to hold intercourse with the spiritual world; London, Smith, Elder, 1884 printing.
Close until the last sentence, which Tolstoy changes. 'A child who enters a lecture-room when a profound philosopher is in the midst of a discourse on some great branch of science, and who leaves before the subject has concluded' becomes 'a child who has come into a room where a learned man is speaking about his science. The child did not hear the beginning and leaves before the end' (Ребенок не слышал начала и уходит прежде конца). 'Before we entered the scene of knowledge' becomes 'before we began our learning'. Thomas's last sentence, 'still though little it is something—something great, solemn, suggestive, sanctifying—something that proves the existence of a capacity to receive', becomes 'But all the same, though little and dimly, we understood something great and solemn' (хотя и немного и смутно, но мы поняли что-то великое и торжественное): 'it is something' becomes 'we understood something', 'dimly' is added, and 'suggestive, sanctifying' and the capacity to receive, the point of Thomas's homily, are left out. Southgate prints the paragraph within a longer quotation signed 'David Thomas, D.D. (The Book of Job)', the form of Tolstoy's signature, and the Jubilee list names Suggestive Thoughts among the Circle's sources. Thomas first printed the homily in his monthly The Homilist, vol. I (1852), found by archive.org full-text search and not saved. The Jubilee name index gives «Томас Давид (1813—1894) — английский религиозный писатель». No printable.