Robert G. IngersollРоберт Ингерсолл
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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.
5. В века людоедства сильные пожирали слабых, попросту поедали их тела. Но, несмотря на все установленные людьми законы, несмотря на успехи наук, сильные, бессердечные люди до сих пор продолжают жить на счет слабых, несчастных и глупых. Правда, они не едят их мяса, не пьют их крови, но они всё равно живут от их лишений и нужды. Бедняки, калечащие себя работой и проводящие всю свою жизнь лишь в заботах о прокормлении себя и своих семей, в сущности поедаются своими собратьями. Видя распадение цивилизованного мира, его беспокойство и слезы, разбитые надежды и жалкую действительность, голодовки и преступления, унижение и позор, невольно приходишь к заключению, что людоедство было не более жестокой формой существования на чужой счет.
5. In the ages of cannibalism the strong devoured the weak, simply ate their bodies. But despite all the laws people have established, despite the successes of the sciences, strong, heartless people still go on living at the expense of the weak, the unfortunate, and the foolish. True, they do not eat their flesh or drink their blood, but they live all the same on their privation and want. The poor, who cripple themselves with work and spend their whole lives in nothing but the care of feeding themselves and their families, are in essence eaten by their fellow men. Seeing the disintegration of the civilized world, its unrest and tears, its broken hopes and wretched reality, its famines and crimes, its humiliation and shame, one comes, in spite of oneself, to the conclusion that cannibalism was no crueler a form of existence at the expense of others.
Lucy Mallory [Robert G. Ingersoll].
From Some Interrogation Points, in The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, vol. XI, Miscellany · reworded by Tolstoy (more).
What changedThe ending is turned: cannibalism, “the most merciful form in which man has ever lived upon his fellow-man,” becomes “no crueler a form of existence at the expense of others”; “actually ate their flesh” becomes “simply ate their bodies.”
What Tolstoy read · The World's Advance-Thought and the Universal RepublicTrue, they do not eat their own flesh nor drink their own blood, but they live on their labor, their self-denial, their weakness and want.
He has been devoured by his fellow-men.
When I take into consideration the agony of civilized life—the failures, the anxieties, the tears, the wretched hope, the bitter realities, the hunger, the crime, the humiliation, the shame—I am almost forced to believe that cannibalism, …
… is the most merciful form in which man has lived upon his fellow-man.
Source text: iapsop.comLucy Mallory’s own wordsIn the days of savagery the strong devoured the weak--actually ate their flesh.
True, they do not eat their flesh, they do not drink their blood, but they live on their labor, on their self-denial, their weariness and want.
He has been devoured by his fellow-men.
When I take into consideration the agony of civilized life--the number of failures, the poverty, the anxiety, the tears, the withered hopes, the bitter realities, the hunger, the crime, the humiliation, the shame--I am almost forced to say that cannibalism, after all, is the most merciful form in which man has ever lived upon his fellow-man.
Source text: gutenberg.orgDetails
The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Some Interrogation Points, in The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, vol. XI, Miscellany (Dresden Edition, 1900), the paragraph that follows the horse that 'feels like a Nihilist'.
The words are Robert G. Ingersoll's, from 'Some Interrogation Points' (The North American Review, 1887, as The Truth Seeker's reprint of that year says; archive.org scan of The Truth Seeker, read, not saved), reprinted without his name under the heading 'Cannibalism' in Mallory's journal for July 1901 (What Tolstoy read); Tolstoy's signature follows the journal. The journal's text is the shorter form quoted under Ingersoll's name in the 1890s ('In the days of cannibalism the strong devoured the weak', e.g. The Arena, October 1898; archive.org full text, read, not saved), and Tolstoy follows it wherever it differs from the Dresden Edition: 'cannibalism' for 'savagery' (В века людоедства), 'advances in science' without 'literature and art' (успехи наук), 'the strong, the heartless' without 'the cunning', 'for himself and children' for 'wife and child'. He shortens and changes it. 'Actually ate their flesh' becomes 'simply ate their bodies' (попросту поедали их тела). 'Their labor, their self-denial, their weakness and want' becomes 'their privations and need' (их лишений и нужды). The poor man's 'anxious, barren, wasted life', 'without ever having one luxury', and 'has been the fool of others' (the journal's misprint for Ingersoll's 'food') are left out, and the two sentences become one: 'The poor, crippling themselves with work and spending their whole life only in caring to feed themselves and their families, are in essence devoured by their fellows' (в сущности поедаются своими собратьями). 'The agony of civilized life—the failures' becomes 'the disintegration of the civilized world' (распадение цивилизованного мира), 'the hunger' 'famines' (голодовки), 'I am almost forced to believe' 'one involuntarily comes to the conclusion' (невольно приходишь к заключению). The ending is turned: 'cannibalism, after all, is the most merciful form in which man has lived upon his fellow-man' becomes 'cannibalism was not a crueler form of living at another's expense' (людоедство было не более жестокой формой существования на чужой счет). Where the journal has 'their own flesh … their own blood', Tolstoy has 'their flesh … their blood' (их мяса, их крови), as Ingersoll has. The journal's text is from pdftotext's raw reading of IAPSOP's PDF, which keeps the two columns apart (the plain text layer, saved as worlds_advance_thought_and_spiritual_republic_v14_n7_jul_1901.txt, interleaves them); excerpts stop short of words broken at a line end ('af- ter all').