John MiltonДжон Мильтон
3 passagesотрывков: 3
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. Есть люди, которые, узнав, что все религиозные вопросы уже разрешены и все религиозные законы установлены, тотчас же отдаются в руки тех людей, которые берутся за такое разрешение и установление.
Зачем им заботиться о том, чтò другие так решительно признают своим неотъемлемым делом? На их долю остается приятно проводить время, заполняя сутки удовольствиями и развлечениями и таким образом укачивая себя на целые годы в приятных снах.
Плодом такого тупого довольства и является отсутствие в народе стремлений к оценке того, чтò ему внушается.
Боюсь, что рабский отпечаток от железного ярма, созданного слепой верой, надолго останется на нашей шее.
1. There are people who, on learning that all religious questions have already been settled and all religious laws established, at once give themselves into the hands of those who undertake such settling and establishing.
Why should they trouble themselves over what others so decidedly claim as their own inalienable business? What is left to them is to pass the time pleasantly, filling their days and nights with pleasures and amusements, and so lulling themselves for years on end in pleasant dreams.
And the fruit of such dull contentment is the absence in the people of any striving to weigh what is instilled in them.
I fear that the slavish imprint of the iron yoke made by blind faith will long remain on our necks.
From Areopagitica · joined by Tolstoy from several places (more).
Milton’s own wordsAnother sort there be who, when they hear that all things shall be ordered, all things regulated and settled, nothing written but what passes through the custom-house of certain publicans that have the tonnaging and poundaging of all free-spoken truth, will straight give themselves up into your hands, make 'em and cut 'em out what religion ye please: there be delights, there be recreations and jolly pastimes that will fetch the day about from sun to sun, and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream.
What need they torture their heads with that which others have taken so strictly and so unalterably into their own purveying? These are the fruits which a dull ease and cessation of our knowledge will bring forth among the people.
I fear yet this iron yoke of outward conformity hath left a slavish print upon our necks; the ghost of a linen decency yet haunts us.
Source text: gutenberg.orgTolstoy’s own version · Tolstoy's unfinished popular version of the Circle, Jubilee vol. 42, 12 January: the fir…Есть удовольствия, развлечения, приятные препровождения времени, которые займут сутки и укачают года в приятных снах. Вот это-то и производят в народе: тупое довольство и прекращение усилий для познания истины.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Areopagitica (London, 1644), Two places: the paragraph 'Another sort there be who, when they hear that all things shall be ordered...', and, later in the tract, 'I fear yet this iron yoke of outward conformity hath left a slavish print upon our necks'.
Joined from two places and changed in both. Milton's 'another sort' are those who, hearing that 'all things shall be ordered, all things regulated and settled, nothing written but what passes through the custom-house' of the licensers, give themselves up to be told 'what religion ye please'; Tolstoy makes them people who hear that 'all religious questions are already resolved and all religious laws established', and drops the licensing. He puts 'What need they torture their heads...' before the pastimes, and 'the fruits which a dull ease and cessation of our knowledge will bring forth among the people' becomes 'the fruit of such dull contentment is that the people do not try to weigh what they are taught'. The last sentence comes from later in the tract: Milton's 'iron yoke of outward conformity' becomes 'the iron yoke made by blind faith', and 'the ghost of a linen decency yet haunts us' is left out. Tolstoy's unfinished popular version of the Circle (Jubilee vol. 42) gives the first paragraph alone, closer to Milton.
2. Если человек думает, что мы должны остановиться на том понимании веры, какое открылось нам теперь, то он очень далек от истины. Свет, который мы получили, был нам дан не для того, чтобы мы не переставая смотрели на него, но для того, чтобы, благодаря ему, нам открывались новые, скрытые еще от нас истины.
2. If a man thinks that we must stop at the understanding of faith that has been revealed to us now, he is very far from the truth. The light we have received was given to us not so that we should gaze at it without ceasing, but so that by it new truths, still hidden from us, might be revealed to us.
From Areopagitica · joined by Tolstoy from several places (more).
What Tolstoy read · Henry Southgate, Suggestive Thoughts on Religious SubjectsHe who thinks we are to pitch our tent here, and have attained the utmost prospect of reformation …
The light which we have gained was given us, not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge.
Source text: archive.orgAfter Milton’s own words… he who thinks we are to pitch our tent here, and have attained the utmost prospect of reformation that the mortal glass wherein we contemplate can show us, till we come to beatific vision, that man by this very opinion declares that he is yet far short of truth.
The light which we have gained was given us, not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Areopagitica (1644), Two sentences some twenty lines apart, around the image of truth as Osiris torn.
Joined from two sentences. The first is condensed: 'pitch our tent here, and have attained the utmost prospect of reformation that the mortal glass ... can show us, till we come to beatific vision' becomes 'stop at the understanding of faith that has opened to us now'. The second is close, 'to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge' becoming 'new truths still hidden from us'. «По Мильтону» marks the retelling. Southgate's Suggestive Thoughts, in Tolstoy's list of sources, prints the whole stretch, both sentences included.
5. Мы оскорбляем истину, когда, сомневаясь в ее силе, разрешаем или запрещаем выражение тех или других мыслей. Пусть истина и ложь вступают в рукопашную: истина непобедима в свободной и равной борьбе. Опровержением лжи она уничтожает ее лучше всяких запрещений.
5. We insult truth when, doubting her strength, we permit or forbid the expression of this or that thought. Let truth and falsehood meet in hand-to-hand combat: truth is invincible in a free and equal fight. By refuting falsehood she destroys it better than any prohibitions can.
From Areopagitica · close to the original (more).
Milton’s own wordsAnd though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength.
Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Areopagitica (1644), Near the end, after 'Janus with his two controversial faces might now not unsignificantly be set open'.
Close. Tolstoy leaves out 'though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field', names truth where Milton has 'her', and spells out 'by licensing and prohibiting' as 'permitting or forbidding the expression of these or those thoughts'. The question 'who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?' becomes a statement, 'truth is invincible in free and equal combat', and 'Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing' becomes 'By refuting falsehood she destroys it better than any prohibitions'. Southgate's Suggestive Thoughts, which gave February 20's Milton, does not have this passage, nor do Coit or Tileston. Milton's words are printed here from 'so Truth be in the field', which gives 'her' its antecedent; the reviewer may prefer Tolstoy's version, since the question becomes a statement.