Henry David ThoreauГенри Дэвид Торо

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), Sunday, Sunday, in the passage on reading that begins 'Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning'.

A close translation; Tolstoy adds 'first of all' (прежде всего). The Jubilee list of Tolstoy's sources names a Russian Thoreau selection («Философия естественной жизни», Posrednik, 1903) and the calendar Every Day with Thoreau, either of which may have been his route; neither was found online.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Journal, 4 October 1859, as printed in Autumn: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau, ed. H. G. O. Blake (Boston, 1892), Autumn (1892), p. 67, the entry of 4 October 1859 on ferns, before 'If you would make acquaintance with the ferns, you must forget your botany'.

Close. Tolstoy drops 'natural' ('any natural object' becomes 'a subject') and 'for the thousandth time'; 'so long as I presume that I have an introduction to it from some learned man' becomes 'so long as I suppose that my relation to it has been settled by a learned man'; 'To conceive of it with a total apprehension' becomes 'To know a subject'. In Thoreau the sentences are about ferns and botany, which Tolstoy leaves out. Blake's 1892 text, the one in print in Tolstoy's time, is printed here, without 'for the thousandth time'.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Letter to Harrison Blake, Concord, 27 March 1848 (Familiar Letters, Writings vol. VI, 1906; first printed in Letters to Various Persons, 1865), Third paragraph from the end of the letter, after 'Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still'.

'Aim above morality' is rendered closely ('strive for what is higher than morality'); Tolstoy puts before it 'Seek not only the moral life', which softens Thoreau's 'Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.' The same letter gave November 26 and December 12 their Thoreau entries.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Letter to Harrison Blake, Concord, 10 August 1849 (Familiar Letters, Writings vol. VI, 1906; first printed in Letters to Various Persons, 1865), Second paragraph of the letter, after 'In this way the wealth of the universe may be securely invested'.

Close in sense, with the form changed: Thoreau's exclamation 'What a pity if we do not live ...' becomes a precept ('One must live ...'), 'this short time' becomes 'the short term of this life', and 'the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws' becomes 'the law of eternal life'. Thoreau's sentence is printed here; the reviewer may prefer Tolstoy's version because of the changed form.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Journal, 15 March 1841, as printed in Early Spring in Massachusetts, ed. H. G. O. Blake (Boston, 1881), Early Spring in Massachusetts (1881), p. 139, under March 15, 1841.

A close translation of Thoreau's first two sentences. The Jubilee list of Tolstoy's sources names 'Every day with Thoreau', loose sheets from an unidentified book; John Page Hopps's monthly The Coming Day printed a Thoreau calendar under that title, where this is July 15, so those sheets were probably Tolstoy's route. Not certain.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Life without Principle (Atlantic Monthly, October 1863), in A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers (Boston, 1866), After 'Do not ask how your bread is buttered; it will make you sick, if you do'.

A close translation of the sentence: 'It is better for a man to die a hungry death than to lose his innocence for the sake of getting bread'; 'at once' is not rendered. The Jubilee list of Tolstoy's sources names 'Every day with Thoreau', bound sheets from an unidentified book. John Page Hopps's monthly The Coming Day printed a Thoreau calendar under that title through 1898, and all five of April's Thoreau entries are in it (March 19, May 25, July 12, September 12, December 31; the April number is not on archive.org), so its sheets were probably Tolstoy's route, as February's trace of 2-24.1 proposed.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Journal, 15 March 1852, as printed in Early Spring in Massachusetts, ed. H. G. O. Blake (Boston, 1881), Early Spring in Massachusetts (1881), p. 140, under March 15, 1852, after 'May I be worthy to do it'.

Thoreau's 'It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning' becomes 'The best happiness is to feel oneself better at the end of the year than at the beginning' (Самое лучшее счастие — чувствовать себя в конце года лучше, чем в начале): what is reasonable to expect of a man becomes the best happiness, and being worthier becomes feeling better. The Jubilee list of Tolstoy's sources names 'Every day with Thoreau', bound sheets from an unidentified book. John Page Hopps's monthly The Coming Day printed a Thoreau calendar under that title through 1898, and all five of April's Thoreau entries are in it (March 19, May 25, July 12, September 12, December 31; the April number is not on archive.org), so its sheets were probably Tolstoy's route, as February's trace of 2-24.1 proposed. No printable.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Walden (1854), ch. XVIII 'Conclusion', After 'Truly, we are deep thinkers, we are ambitious spirits!'.

Thoreau's sentence, clause by clause, changed in two places. 'why it will cherish those humble thoughts, and hide its head from me' becomes 'why it is so timid and hides its head from me' (зачем она так робка): humility becomes timidity. 'the greater Benefactor and Intelligence that stands over me' becomes 'that great benefactor who stands over me', and the Intelligence is left out. 'some cheering information' becomes 'perhaps very joyful news', and the pine needles spruce needles (еловых иглах). The Jubilee list of Tolstoy's sources names 'Every day with Thoreau', bound sheets from an unidentified book. John Page Hopps's monthly The Coming Day printed a Thoreau calendar under that title through 1898, and all five of April's Thoreau entries are in it (March 19, May 25, July 12, September 12, December 31; the April number is not on archive.org), so its sheets were probably Tolstoy's route, as February's trace of 2-24.1 proposed. No printable.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Walden (1854), ch. XVIII 'Conclusion', After 'Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation'.

Thoreau's simile turned to another subject. 'Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights' becomes 'As the darkness of night reveals the heavenly lights (небесные светила), so only sufferings reveal the whole meaning of life': the heavenly lights and the darkness are Thoreau's, the sufferings and the meaning of life Tolstoy's, and humility is gone. Thoreau's next sentence, on the shadows of poverty and meanness, may have suggested the sufferings. The Jubilee list of Tolstoy's sources names 'Every day with Thoreau', bound sheets from an unidentified book. John Page Hopps's monthly The Coming Day printed a Thoreau calendar under that title through 1898, and all five of April's Thoreau entries are in it (March 19, May 25, July 12, September 12, December 31; the April number is not on archive.org), so its sheets were probably Tolstoy's route, as February's trace of 2-24.1 proposed. No printable.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Journal, 3 March 1841, as printed in Early Spring in Massachusetts, ed. H. G. O. Blake (Boston, 1881), Early Spring in Massachusetts (1881), pp. 47–48, under March 3, 1841, after 'Here I contemplate to drudge that I may own a farm'.

A close translation: 'All truly good things are cheap, all harmful ones dear'; 'truly' (истинно) is added and 'bad' becomes 'harmful' (вредные), 'very dear' 'dear'. The Jubilee list of Tolstoy's sources names 'Every day with Thoreau', bound sheets from an unidentified book. John Page Hopps's monthly The Coming Day printed a Thoreau calendar under that title through 1898, and all five of April's Thoreau entries are in it (March 19, May 25, July 12, September 12, December 31; the April number is not on archive.org), so its sheets were probably Tolstoy's route, as February's trace of 2-24.1 proposed.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Journal, 27 June 1852, as printed in Summer, ed. H. G. O. Blake (Boston, 1884), Summer (1884), p. 256, under June 27, 1852, at the end of a passage on lightning.

One sentence, translated closely but for one word: Thoreau's 'probably' becomes 'often' (часто), so his guess becomes a statement of how things often are. The rest is kept: 'nearer to the essential truth' (ближе к существенной истине), 'in their superstitions than in their science'. The calendar 'Every Day with Thoreau' in John Page Hopps's The Coming Day prints the sentence under March 2, with 'probably'; April found all five of its Thoreau there, and May's three are there too (March 2, May 16, December 17), so the calendar was probably Tolstoy's route. The '»' in the calendar's excerpt is a mark of the scan. No printable.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Journal, June 1850, as printed in Summer, ed. H. G. O. Blake (Boston, 1884), Summer (1884), p. 75, among the entries for June 9–14, 1850.

Changed and lengthened. Thoreau's 'him who wants a companion' (who lacks one) becomes 'him who seeks a companion' (кто ищет товарища). Tolstoy adds a clause of his own, 'for the faithful companion is only himself' (потому что верный товарищ — только он сам), and 'he is unfit to be the companion even of himself' becomes 'the one who seeks cannot be a faithful companion to himself', adding 'faithful' (верным). The Coming Day's calendar prints Thoreau's sentence unchanged under May 16; it is probably Tolstoy's route, as for May's other Thoreau (5-3.7, 5-27.3). No printable.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Civil Disobedience (first printed as Resistance to Civil Government, 1849), in A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers (Boston, 1866), After 'I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad'.

Thoreau's first clause is changed, and with it his point. 'A man has not everything to do, but something' (the duty of doing something) becomes 'A man cannot do everything' (Человек не может сделать всего); 'but something' is left out. 'because he cannot do everything, it is not necessary that he should do something wrong' becomes 'but that he cannot do everything does not prove that he must do wrong' (не доказывает того, чтобы он должен был делать дурное). The Coming Day's calendar prints the sentence unchanged under December 17, credited to Civil Disobedience; it is probably Tolstoy's route, as for May's other Thoreau. No printable.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), Thursday, The passage on Persius and satire, after 'no evil is so huge, but you grudge to bestow on it a moment of hate' (first printed in Thoreau's 'Aulus Persius Flaccus', The Dial, July 1840).

Thoreau's sentence, enlarged. Tolstoy found it as the entry for 2 April in the calendar 'Every Day with Thoreau' (The Coming Day, April 1898), the sheets the Jubilee list names among his sources (What Tolstoy read); the entry for 1 April there is the source of 6-11.5. 'Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood' becomes 'Truth never furiously takes up arms against evil' (никогда яростно не ополчается против зла): 'falsehood' becomes 'evil', and the rebuke becomes a furious attack. 'Her own straightforwardness is the severest correction' becomes 'its clearness, its evidentness, and its inner power strike evil most of all' (ее наглядность, очевидность и внутренняя мощь сильнее всего поражает зло): one quality becomes three, and correction becomes striking. No printable, for the changes.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Walden (1854), ch. I, Economy, Early in the chapter, after 'Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion'.

Thoreau's sentence with 'or rather indicates' left out, so that Tolstoy says outright what Thoreau corrected himself on: what a man thinks of himself determines his fate. 'Thinks of himself' becomes 'understands himself' (понимает себя). Tolstoy found it in the calendar 'Every Day with Thoreau' (The Coming Day, April 1898), the sheets the Jubilee list names among his sources, which prints it twice, on 1 and 23 April, both times with 'or rather indicates' (What Tolstoy read); the entry for 2 April is the source of 6-8.6. No printable, for the words left out.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Letter to Harrison Blake, Concord, 3 April 1850 (Familiar Letters, Writings vol. VI, 1906; first printed in Letters to Various Persons, 1865), The letter's middle, after 'I say, God. I am not sure that that is the name. You will know whom I mean.'.

Close, with small changes. 'Make way with our petty selves' becomes 'renounce our little "I"' (отрешимся от своего маленького «я»); Thoreau's two clauses 'wish no ill to anything, apprehend no ill' become one, 'do not plot evil' (не будем замышлять злого), so fearing no ill drops out; 'the crystal which reflects a ray' becomes 'clear glass reflecting rays' (чистым стеклом, отражающим лучи). 'What shall we not reflect!' is kept (чего только мы не отразим!), and 'What a universe will appear crystallized and radiant around us!' becomes 'The whole universe will unfold in radiant splendour around us' (Всё мироздание развернется в лучезарном блеске вокруг нас). The sentence is not in the calendar 'Every Day with Thoreau' in The Coming Day for 1898, the route of April's five Thoreau thoughts and three of July's (all twelve issues, saved, searched); Tolstoy's route was not found. The Jubilee list of sources also names a Russian selection, «Философия естественной жизни» (Posrednik, 1903), not looked for. No printable.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Journal, 27 February 1851, as printed in Early Spring in Massachusetts, ed. H. G. O. Blake (Boston, 1881), Early Spring (1881), p. 14, the entry for 27 February 1851.

Thoreau's two questions become an exclamation. Thoreau asks 'what great advantage has the latter over the former? which is the better to deal with?', leaving the reader to answer that the man who knows he knows nothing is the better. Tolstoy gives the answer: 'What an enormous advantage is on the side of the man who knows nothing about a subject and (which is very rare) knows that he knows nothing about it, over the one who really knows something but thinks that he knows everything!' (Какое огромное преимущество на стороне того человека…), and repeats it, 'What an enormous advantage is on the side of the first!'; the second question is left out. The rest is close. The Coming Day's calendar prints the sentence under May 14 (What Tolstoy read), as it printed April's five Thoreau thoughts and May's 5-13.6. No printable.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Journal, 21 June 1840, as printed in Summer, ed. H. G. O. Blake (Boston, 1884), Summer (1884), pp. 197–198, the entry for 21 June 1840.

Changed in two places. 'They are fatally mistaken who think, while they strive with their minds, they may suffer their bodies to stagnate in luxury or sloth' becomes 'How cruelly mistaken are those who think that they can live a high spiritual life while their bodies stagnate in idleness and luxury' (Как жестоко ошибаются те, которые думают, что они могут жить высокой духовной жизнью в то время, как тела их коснеют в праздности и роскоши): 'strive with their minds' becomes 'live a high spiritual life'. 'The body is the first proselyte the soul makes' becomes 'The body is always the soul's first disciple' (Тело всегда первый ученик души), adding 'always'. The Coming Day's calendar prints the two sentences under March 11, without the entry's opening ('A man is never inspired unless his body is also') and with the two sentences that follow it (What Tolstoy read). Tolstoy used them again in Путь жизни (1910; Tolstoy's own version). No printable.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Walden (1854), ch. I 'Economy', Ch. I, after the factory system, 'that corporations may be enriched', before 'As for a Shelter'.

Shortened, its last words strengthened. 'In the long run men hit only what they aim at' is kept (В конце концов люди достигают только того, что ставят себе целью). 'Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high' becomes 'And therefore one should aim only at the very highest' (И потому ставить целью надо только самое высокое): Thoreau's concession, 'though they should fail immediately', is left out, and 'something high' becomes 'only the very highest'. The Coming Day's calendar prints both sentences under April 16 (What Tolstoy read). No printable.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. College essay of 1837, as quoted in F. B. Sanborn, Henry D. Thoreau (American Men of Letters, 1882), ch. VI 'Early Essays in Authorship', Sanborn's quotation from 'another essay of 1837', after the sentence on duty.

Changed in its claim. Thoreau, aged nineteen, wrote 'to reject religion is the first step towards moral excellence'; Tolstoy writes 'the first step to moral perfection is freeing oneself from the religion in which one grew up' (освобождение себя от религии, в которой вырос): the rejection of religion as such becomes release from an inherited religion. 'At least no man ever attained to the highest degree of the latter by any other road' becomes 'No man ever went toward perfection otherwise than by this road' (Ни один человек не шел к совершенствованию иначе, как по этому пути): 'at least' and 'the highest degree' are left out. 'It appears to me' becomes 'I am convinced' (я убежден); 'habit' becomes 'custom' (обычай). The words are from a Harvard essay of 1837 that Sanborn quotes; Tolstoy's route was the calendar 'Every Day with Thoreau' in The Coming Day, which prints them for January 16 with the comma after 'mankind' and without Sanborn's italic 'religion'. The Jubilee list of the Circle's sources names 'Every day with Thoreau', bound sheets from an unidentified book. Tolstoy printed the same text again in На каждый день (May 1).

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Thoreau: His Life and Aims (Boston, 1877), by H. A. Page [Alexander Hay Japp], p. 108, section II, on the retreat to Walden: 'he unconsciously acted on the axiom of Goethe'.

The sentence is not Thoreau's. H. A. Page (A. H. Japp) quotes it in 1877 as 'the axiom of Goethe', on which Thoreau 'unconsciously acted' when he retired to Walden. The calendar 'Every Day with Thoreau' in The Coming Day prints it for November 24 as Thoreau's, credited to a 'Letter', and Tolstoy signed it «Торо» after the calendar. It is not in Thoreau's Familiar Letters (Writings, vol. VI, 1906) or in the other saved Thoreau. Japp names no work of Goethe's, and the German was not found, so the attribution to Goethe is Japp's alone and is not given as certain. Tolstoy turns the first person into a precept: 'When I need to recruit my strength I must retire into solitude' becomes 'When you feel the need of strength, withdraw into solitude' (Когда чувствуешь потребность силы — уединись). No printable, because the author is not Thoreau and the person is changed.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Journal, 20 June 1840, as printed in Summer: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau, ed. H. G. O. Blake (Boston, 1884), p. 192, after the oven-bird and the squirrel heard in a good book.

Close in sense, recast in form. 'If we only see clearly enough how mean our lives are, they will be splendid enough' becomes «Жизнь наша стала бы прекрасна, если бы мы только увидали всю ее низость» (Our life would become beautiful if we only saw all its meanness): 'clearly enough' becomes «всю» (all), and 'splendid enough' «прекрасна» (beautiful). Tolstoy's route was the calendar 'Every Day with Thoreau' in The Coming Day, which prints this sentence alone for January 11; the Jubilee list of the Circle's sources names 'Every day with Thoreau', bound sheets from an unidentified book. Faithful to the English: printable offered; a reviewer may judge 'clearly enough' and 'splendid enough' changed enough to keep Tolstoy's version.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Journal, 24 March 1842, as printed in Early Spring in Massachusetts, ed. H. G. O. Blake (Boston, 1881), p. 222, after the 'Veeshnoo Sarma'.

Close in three sentences, changed in one. Tolstoy follows the calendar's 'The wise man' (Blake's printing of the journal has 'The wise'). 'In his wisest moment' becomes «в самые свои хорошие минуты» (in his very best moments); 'The easiness of doubt is the ground of his assurance' becomes «Беспрепятственность сомнения составляет основу его уверенности» (the freedom of his doubt is the basis of his certainty). 'Faith keeps many doubts in her pay' becomes «Истинная вера всегда сопутствуема сомнениями» (true faith is always accompanied by doubts): the image of faith keeping doubts in her pay is replaced, and 'true' and 'always' are added. 'If I could not doubt I should not believe' is kept word for word.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Letter to Harrison Blake, Concord, 16 November 1857 (Familiar Letters, Writings vol. VI, 1906), on the hard times: 'If thousands are thrown out of employment, it suggests that they were not well employed'.

Shortened: Tolstoy leaves out 'so are the ants' between the two sentences, and makes the first an exclamation: «Мало того, что вы трудолюбивы! Над чем вы трудитесь?» (It is not enough that you are industrious! What are you working at?). The calendar 'Every Day with Thoreau' in The Coming Day prints the two sentences with the ants for September 26; its scan garbles the line after 'industrious', so only its first clause is quoted. Printed in italics in the Circle. No printable: words are left out inside.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Letter to Harrison Blake, Concord, 3 April 1850 (Familiar Letters, Writings vol. VI, 1906), the paragraph beginning 'Let God alone if need be'.

Close, with two words changed. Tolstoy begins after 'Let God alone if need be. Methinks, if I loved him more, I should keep him--I should keep myself rather--at a more respectful distance', as the calendar 'Every Day with Thoreau' in The Coming Day does for November 8. 'I discover that God is' becomes «я признаю то, что бог есть» (I acknowledge that God is), and 'You will know whom I mean' becomes «Вы поймете, что я разумею» (You will understand what I mean): Thoreau's 'whom', a person, becomes «что», what. 'Leaving him alone' becomes «оставляю его» (leave him), without 'alone', and 'I am not sure that that is the name' becomes «не знаю наверное, так ли я называю» (I do not know for certain whether I name it rightly). The Jubilee list of the Circle's sources names 'Every day with Thoreau', bound sheets from an unidentified book. No printable, because of 'acknowledge' and 'what'; a reviewer may judge them close enough to print Thoreau's words.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Journal, as printed in Early Spring in Massachusetts, ed. H. G. O. Blake (Boston, 1881), pp. 82–83, a paragraph without a date of its own, after the entry of 7 March 1859 on the shrike and the robins.

Close in its images, changed in its verbs. 'Kindred with' becomes «такая же, как» (the same as). 'The physiologist must not presume to explain their growth according to mechanical laws' becomes «физиолог напрасно надеется объяснить ее механическим законом» (the physiologist hopes in vain to explain it by mechanical law): Thoreau's caution, 'must not presume', becomes a statement that the attempt is futile. 'We must not expect to probe with our fingers the sanctuary of any life, whether animal or vegetable' becomes «Мы не должны щупать пальцами святую святых жизни животной или даже растительной» (We must not finger the holy of holies of animal or even vegetable life), without 'expect to' and with 'even' added. 'If we do, we shall discover nothing but surface still' becomes «Делая это, мы ничего не откроем, кроме внешности» (Doing so, we shall discover nothing but the outside), without 'still'. Tolstoy's route was the calendar 'Every Day with Thoreau' in The Coming Day, which prints the three sentences for May 11, credited to 'Spring'; the next thought of the day, 10-8.5, comes from the same calendar. The Jubilee list of the Circle's sources names 'Every day with Thoreau', bound sheets from an unidentified book. No printable.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Journal, 1 May 1859, as printed in 'May Days: Extracts from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau', The Atlantic Monthly, vol. 41 (May 1878), pp. 569–570, the paragraph beginning 'Science is inhuman', under the date 1 May 1859.

Changed. 'Things seen with a microscope begin to be insignificant' becomes «Вещь, которую мы видим через микроскоп и телескоп, становится незначительной» (A thing that we see through the microscope and the telescope becomes insignificant): 'and the telescope' is Tolstoy's, and 'begin to be' becomes «становится» (becomes). Tolstoy's route was the calendar 'Every Day with Thoreau' in The Coming Day, which prints 'Science is inhuman. Things seen with a microscope begin to be insignificant. If you would obtain insight, avoid anatomy' for July 19, credited to 'May Days', the journal extracts printed under that title in The Atlantic Monthly of May 1878; there the third sentence stands a few paragraphs later, in the entry of 2 May 1852. Tolstoy left out the first and third sentences. The Jubilee list of the Circle's sources names 'Every day with Thoreau', bound sheets from an unidentified book. No printable.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Journal, 16 November 1851, as printed in Autumn: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau, ed. H. G. O. Blake (Boston, 1892), p. 280, the entry of 16 November 1851.

Changed in its close. 'It is remarkable that the highest intellectual mood which the world tolerates is the perception of the truth of the most ancient revelations, now in some respects out of date' becomes «Как удивительно то, что мир терпит и воспринимает из высших откровений истины только самые древние и теперь уже несвоевременные» (How remarkable it is that of the highest revelations of truth the world tolerates and accepts only the most ancient, now out of season): 'and accepts' and 'only' are added, and Thoreau's 'highest intellectual mood' becomes 'the highest revelations of truth'. 'Any direct revelation, any original thought, it hates like virtue' becomes «всякое прямое откровение, всякую самобытную мысль считает ничтожною и большей частью старательно отвергает» (every direct revelation, every original thought, it considers worthless and for the most part zealously rejects): the irony of 'hates like virtue' is replaced by two plain verbs. Tolstoy's route was the calendar 'Every Day with Thoreau' in The Coming Day, which prints the sentence for May 5, credited to 'Autumn', with 'moods' for 'mood'; its scan is garbled, so only two pieces of it are quoted. The Jubilee list of the Circle's sources names 'Every day with Thoreau', bound sheets from an unidentified book. The original is quoted from a second scan of Autumn (Boston Public Library's), saved beside the first, whose text breaks 'toler ates' without a hyphen. No printable.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Letter to Harrison Blake, Concord, 27 February 1853 (Familiar Letters, Writings vol. VI, 1906), a paragraph of one sentence, after 'the same surprising and everlastingly new light dawns to me'.

Expanded and changed. Thoreau's 'As to how to preserve potatoes from rotting' becomes «О том, как сохранить платье от моли, железо от ржавчины, картофель от гниения и т. п.» (As to how to preserve clothes from moths, iron from rust, potatoes from rotting, and so on): the clothes and the iron are Tolstoy's. 'Your opinion may change from year to year' becomes «мое мнение может изменяться» (my opinion may change), without 'from year to year'. 'I have nothing to learn, but something to practice' becomes «мне нечему учиться, мне надо только исполнять то, что я знаю» (I have nothing to learn; I need only carry out what I know), the last words set in emphasis. Tolstoy's route was the calendar 'Every Day with Thoreau' in The Coming Day, which prints the sentence for December 8, credited to 'Letters', with 'practise'. The Jubilee list of the Circle's sources names 'Every day with Thoreau', bound sheets from an unidentified book. No printable.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), 'Friday' (first written in his journal, 22 March 1842, of Walden Pond), Friday, the passage 'Sometimes we see objects as through a thin haze'.

Close, but changed in two details: Thoreau is 'absolved from all obligation to the past' (Tolstoy: free of all obligations), and 'the council of nations may reconsider its votes' becomes 'the peoples of the whole world may revise their constitutions without me'; Tolstoy also sets it 'by the sea' (Thoreau's shore is a river's). 'The grating of a pebble annuls them' is dropped.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Letter to Harrison Blake, Concord, 27 March 1848 (Familiar Letters, Writings vol. VI, 1906), Letter of 27 March 1848.

Close (slightly loosened: 'does wrong, do right' becomes 'lives badly, live well'; 'do not care to convince him' becomes 'do not convince him with words'; 'Let them see' is dropped).

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Letter to Harrison Blake, Concord, 27 March 1848 (Familiar Letters, Writings vol. VI, 1906; first printed in Letters to Various Persons, 1865), Letter of 27 March 1848, the paragraph beginning "Our bread need not ever be sour or hard to digest".

Changed in the middle. The first and last sentences are close (the plants through hard earth and the crevices of rocks; wedge, beetle and catapult, with the beetle, a heavy mallet, rendered "молот"). But Thoreau's "but a man no material power can resist" becomes "Так и доброта" (so it is with goodness), and his "earnest man" becomes "a good, sincere man": Tolstoy turns a saying about the force of an earnest man into one about goodness. "What can resist him?" becomes a statement, "Nothing can resist him". The same letter gave November 26 (11-26.5).

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Resistance to Civil Government (1849), known as "Civil Disobedience", Early paragraph, after "Why has every man a conscience, then?".

A close translation of three sentences, with two left out between them ("The only obligation which I have a right to assume..." and the corporation with a conscience). "Even" becomes "напротив" (on the contrary), "a whit" and "daily" are dropped, and "the well-disposed" become "good people". Thoreau's own words are printed here.