Grant AllenГрант Аллен
2 passagesотрывков: 2
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. Человек в нашем обществе не может спать, не платя за то место, на котором он спит. Воздух, вода и солнечный свет принадлежат ему только на большой дороге. Единственное право, признанное за ним законом, — это ходить по этой большой дороге до тех пор, пока он не зашатается от усталости, потому что он не может остановиться, а должен ходить.
4. A man in our society cannot sleep without paying for the place where he sleeps. Air, water, and sunlight belong to him only on the highway. The only right the law recognizes as his is to walk along this highway until he staggers with exhaustion, because he cannot stop, but must keep walking.
From Individualism and Socialism, Contemporary Review, vol. 55, May 1889 · shortened by Tolstoy (more).
Grant Allen’s own wordsThe very air, the water, and the sunlight are only his in the public highway : nay more, even there, for a single day alone.
His one right, recognized by the law, is the right to walk along that highway till he reels With fatigue— for he must “ keep moving : ”
Source text: archive.orgIndividualism and Socialism, reprinted from the Contemporary Review in The Eclectic Maga…He cannot sleep without paying rent for the ground he sleeps on.
Source text: archive.orgTolstoy’s own version · Путь жизниЧеловек в нашем обществе не может спать, не платя за то место, на котором он спит.
Воздух, вода, солнечный свет принадлежат ему только на большой дороге.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Individualism and Socialism, Contemporary Review, vol. 55, May 1889, pp. 732–733 (the essay pp. 730–741), the paragraph on the young citizen born into a land already owned.
Shortened from one paragraph, with small changes. 'He cannot sleep without paying rent for the ground he sleeps on' becomes 'A man in our society cannot sleep without paying for the place on which he sleeps': Allen's 'he' is the young citizen born into an England whose soil is all owned, and Tolstoy names him. Tolstoy leaves out the next three sentences (on labor, on wood and stone, and on the fruits of the earth) and 'nay more, even there, for a single day alone'. 'The very air, the water, and the sunlight are only his in the public highway' is close ('only on the high road', только на большой дороге). 'Till he reels with fatigue—for he must "keep moving"' becomes 'until he staggers from fatigue, because he cannot stop but must walk', and Tolstoy stops before the magistrates and the charge of vagabondage. Both scans of the Contemporary Review garble the first sentence ('rent for' the^m|tid' v 'he'); the Eclectic Magazine's reprint of June 1889 (Edition) reads it clearly. Tolstoy printed the passage again in The Path of Life. The Jubilee name index calls Grant Allen (1848–1899) an American novelist; in this essay he writes as an Englishman, of English soil. No printable.
3. Само собою разумеется, что тот факт, что какой-нибудь начальник или землевладелец купил какую-нибудь привилегию или унаследовал ее от отцов, не дает ему еще никакого нравственного права на нее. Вопрос в том, справедливо ли, разумно ли его требование само по себе? Потому что неправда и зло — тем более неправда и зло, чем долее они продолжаются.
3. It goes without saying that the fact that some chief or landowner has bought some privilege or inherited it from his fathers does not of itself give him any moral right to it. The question is: is his claim just, is it reasonable, in itself? For wrong and evil are only the more wrong and evil the longer they go on.
From The British Barbarians: A Hill-Top Novel · reworded by Tolstoy (more).
What changed“Doesn’t give him any better moral claim to it” becomes “does not of itself give him any moral right to it”: Allen’s purchase gives no better claim, Tolstoy’s no right at all; “species of taboo,” Allen’s figure for property, is left out, and “a wrong” becomes “wrong and evil.”
Grant Allen’s own wordsOf course, the fact that a chief or a landowner has bought and paid for a particular privilege or species of taboo, or has inherited it from his fathers, doesn't give him any better moral claim to it.
The question is, " Is the claim in itself right and reasonable?"
For a wrong is only all the more a wrong for having been long and …
… persistently exercised.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. The British Barbarians: A Hill-Top Novel (London: John Lane; New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1895), ch. IV, pp. 67–68, spoken by Bertram Ingledew, the novel's visitor from the future, on the 'taboos' of English property.
Three consecutive sentences of a speech in Allen's novel: the words are a character's, Bertram Ingledew, who has just described how Polynesian chiefs could 'taboo almost anything they liked' and goes on to the English 'land-taboo'. Tolstoy keeps the order and changes the claim. 'Has bought and paid for a particular privilege or species of taboo' becomes 'bought some privilege', the taboo, Allen's figure for property, left out. 'Doesn't give him any better moral claim to it' becomes 'does not yet give him any moral right to it' (не дает ему еще никакого нравственного права на нее): Allen's purchase gives no better claim, Tolstoy's no right at all. 'Is the claim in itself right and reasonable?' becomes 'is his claim just, is it reasonable, in itself?' 'For a wrong is only all the more a wrong for having been long and persistently exercised' becomes 'For untruth and evil are the more untruth and evil the longer they continue' (неправда и зло — тем более неправда и зло, чем долее они продолжаются): 'and evil' is added. May's 5-30.4 came from Allen's essay 'Individualism and Socialism' (1889), which makes the same argument in his own voice. The Jubilee name index calls Allen an American novelist; he was Canadian-born and wrote in England. No printable.