George EliotДжордж Элиот

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Romola (1862-63), ch. XXXIX 'A Supper in the Rucellai Gardens', ch. XXXIX, the paragraph after Tito's 'triple deceit'.

Close in sense, changed in wording. 'As the life of mankind at large makes a moral tradition for the race' becomes 'as the life of our ancestors makes a tradition for the kin', and 'to have once acted nobly seems a reason why we should always be noble' becomes 'a great deed we have done seems to us a reason for making our whole life answer to that deed'. In the novel the sentence leads into Tito's falling away ('But Tito was feeling the effect of an opposite tradition'); Tolstoy takes it as a general thought.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Romola (1862-63), ch. XL 'An Arresting Voice', Ch. XL, Savonarola to Romola, who is leaving Florence and her husband.

Changed in two places. Coit's The Message of Man, in Tolstoy's list of sources, prints Savonarola's words in the second person singular in its chapter 'The Marriage Bond is Holy', and Tolstoy names the duties as those 'to husband or wife' (перед супругом или супругой), which Coit's chapter title supplies (in the novel Romola is leaving her husband). The ending 'Sorrow without duty, bitter herbs, and no bread with them' becomes 'The same sorrow, but without the consciousness of duty fulfilled' (Ту же печаль, но без сознания исполненной обязанности). 'You may choose to forsake your duties, and choose not to have the sorrow they bring. But you will go forth' becomes 'you may neglect your duty ..., may rid yourself of the sorrow these duties give you, may go away'. The paragraph break before the last line is Tolstoy's. Tileston's Daily Strength for Daily Needs (23 October) prints the same passage, without the marriage. No printable.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Adam Bede (1859), ch. LIV 'The Meeting on the Hill', Ch. LIV, the closing paragraph, after Adam and Dinah's betrothal.

Close. The question becomes a statement ('A great thing it is when two souls feel...'); 'joined for life' becomes 'joined forever' (навеки); 'to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow' becomes one clause, 'to support each other in every labour, in every sorrow'; and 'silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting' becomes 'those silent, unspeakable minutes of the last parting' (минуты). Coit's The Message of Man opens its chapter 'The Marriage Bond is Holy' with this sentence, and the same chapter holds the lines of 3-11.2; Tolstoy probably took both from it. Eliot's sentence is printed here; the reviewer may prefer Tolstoy's version, since two clauses are joined and 'memories' becomes 'minutes'.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Adam Bede (1859), ch. XLI; Romola (1862–63), ch. XVI, Adam Bede, ch. XLI 'The Eve of the Trial', Mr. Irwine to Adam; Romola, ch. XVI 'A Florentine Joke', the narrator on Tito.

Two novels joined, as Coit's The Message of Man (1902) joins them in one verse (What Tolstoy read): the first two sentences from Adam Bede, where Mr. Irwine speaks to Adam ('you can't isolate yourself'), the third from the narrator of Romola. Coit puts Irwine's words in the first person plural, 'We cannot isolate ourselves, and say that the evil which is in us shall not spread', and Tolstoy has the plural too (Мы не можем так уединиться). Against Coit, Tolstoy is close, with two changes: 'There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone' becomes 'There is no bad deed for which only the one who did it would be punished'; 'Our deeds are like children that are born to us' becomes 'Our deeds are like our children'. Tolstoy used the thought again, enlarged ('our deeds, both good and evil'), in «На каждый день» (3 June), in «Для души» (1909, section III, no. 4, Jubilee vol. 40, where the second sentence becomes 'We cannot make it so that our evil deeds do not pass to other people'), and in Путь жизни (Tolstoy's other version). No printable: Coit joined two novels and changed Eliot's person.