Dr. W. ZimmermannД-р В. Циммерман
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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.
1. Как теперь считается гнусным и позорным подкидывать детей, устраивать бой гладиаторов, мучить пленников и совершать другие зверства, никому не казавшиеся прежде ни предосудительными, ни противными чувству справедливости, так подходит время, когда будет считаться безнравственным и непозволительным убивать животных и употреблять в пищу их трупы.
1. Just as it is now considered vile and shameful to abandon children, to stage gladiatorial combats, to torture captives, and to commit other atrocities that formerly seemed to no one either reprehensible or contrary to the sense of justice, so the time is drawing near when it will be considered immoral and impermissible to kill animals and to use their corpses for food.
From Der Weg zum Paradiese, quoted in English in Howard Williams, The Ethics of Diet · close to the original (more).
What Tolstoy read · Howard Williams, The Ethics of Diet: A Catena of Authorities Deprecatory of the Practice…From Der Weg zum Paradiese (" The Way to Paradise ") the following extract sufficiently represents the inspiration of the writer, Dr. W. Zimmermann : …
Besides, we are advancing towards a humaner century ; and, as the present is a humaner time than the century before, so later will there be a milder regime than now.
Just as, in our days, exposure of children, combats of gladiators, torture of prisoners, and other atrocities are held to be scandalous and shameful, while in earlier times they were thought quite justifiable and right, so in the future will the murder of animals, to feed upon their corpses, be pronounced to be immoral and indefensible.
Already (1846) are associations being formed for the protection of these beings ; …
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Der Weg zum Paradiese, quoted in English in Howard Williams, The Ethics of Diet (1883), Williams, The Ethics of Diet (London, 1883), p. 285, at the end of the chapter on Daumer.
Found in Howard Williams's The Ethics of Diet (1883), which quotes it in English from Der Weg zum Paradiese (“The Way to Paradise”) by “Dr. W. Zimmermann” (his index: “Zimmerman W., M.D.”); so «Д-р Циммерман» is this vegetarian physician, as the Jubilee name index describes him (a German writer, physician, and propagandist of vegetarianism), and not Johann Georg Zimmermann (1728–1795), the Swiss physician of Über die Einsamkeit. Against Williams's English Tolstoy is close: as now the exposure of children, combats of gladiators, torture of prisoners, and other atrocities are held scandalous and shameful («гнусным и позорным»), though earlier they were thought quite justifiable and right («никому не казавшиеся прежде ни предосудительными, ни противными чувству справедливости», which formerly seemed to no one blameworthy or contrary to the sense of justice), so in the future the murder of animals to feed on their corpses will be pronounced immoral and indefensible («безнравственным и непозволительным»). Tolstoy writes «так подходит время, когда» (so the time is approaching when) for “so in the future”. Tolstoy knew the book: Chertkov sent it to him in April 1891, he called it “excellent”, and «Первая ступень» was reprinted as the introduction to its Russian translation, «Этика пищи» (Posrednik, 1893) (Jubilee vol. 29 commentary). That translation and T. Tolstaya's «250 мыслей философов, поэтов и ученых о вегетарианстве и воздержании» (Posrednik, 1903), in the Jubilee list of the Circle's sources, were not found online; either may hold the Russian Tolstoy used. The German original was not found online (archive.org searched by title), so there is no original block.