Joseph RitsonДжозеф Ритсон
1 passageотрывков: 1
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.
6. Баран гораздо менее предназначен для человека, чем человек для тигра, так как тигр — животное плотоядное, а человек не создан таковым.
6. The sheep is far less meant for man than man is for the tiger, since the tiger is a carnivorous animal, and man was not created one.
From An Essay on Abstinence from Animal Food, as a Moral Duty · close to the original (more).
Ritson’s own words… the ufe they were defign’d for ;+
… is not fo much “ defign’d” for the man, as the man is for the ¢yger; this animal being naturally carnivorous, which man is not: …
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. An Essay on Abstinence from Animal Food, as a Moral Duty (London: Richard Phillips, 1802), ch. X 'Humanity', p. 218, footnote † to Ritson's quotation of Mandeville (The Fable of the Bees, Remark P), on the words 'the use they were design'd for'.
Close to Ritson's footnote as far as Tolstoy takes it: 'The sheep is not so much "design'd" for the man, as the man is for the tyger; this animal being naturally carnivorous, which man is not' (the scan reads the long s as f and garbles 'sheep' and 'tyger'). 'Not so much ... as' becomes 'much less ... than' (гораздо менее), and 'which man is not' becomes 'and man is not made so' (не создан таковым). Tolstoy stops before Ritson's 'but nature and justice, or humanity, are not, allways, one and the same thing'. The note glosses Mandeville's 'there can be no cruelty in puting creatures to the use they were design'd for', in the passage of The Fable of the Bees whose first sentence is Tolstoy's 9-24.2, on the same day: Tolstoy probably took both from Ritson's page, or from a compilation that had it (the Jubilee list names T. Tolstaya's «250 мыслей ... о вегетарианстве», 1903, not found online). Howard Williams's Ethics of Diet, which Tolstoy prefaced, has a chapter on Ritson without this note. Ritson's reformed spelling ('design'd', 'allways') and the scan's errors leave no clean text to print: no printable.