Sir Thomas BrowneТомас Браун
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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. Главное наше несовершенство в нашем внутреннем зрении: мы страшно дальнозорки для того, чтобы увидать дурное в других, но дурное в нас невидимо для нас.
5. Our chief imperfection is in our inner sight: we are terribly farsighted when it comes to seeing the bad in others, but the bad in ourselves is invisible to us.
From Christian Morals · reworded by Tolstoy (more).
What changedTolstoy adds evil twice: being “so sharpsighted as to look thorough others” becomes being “terribly farsighted when it comes to seeing the bad in others,” and being “invisible unto our selves” becomes “the bad in ourselves is invisible to us,” so we fail to see our own evil, where Browne has us fail to see ourselves.
What Tolstoy read · The Message of Man: A Book of Ethical Scriptures, gathered by Stanton CoitThe greatest imperfection is in our inward vision ; while we arc so sharp-sighted as to look through others, we are almost invisible unto ourselves.
Source text: archive.orgBrowne’s own wordsBut the greatest imperfection is in our inward sight, that is, to be Ghosts unto our own Eyes, and while we are so sharpsighted as to look thorough others, to be invisible unto our selves ; …
… for the inward Eyes are more fallacious than the outward.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Christian Morals (posthumous, 1716), Part III, sect. XV, pp. 78–79 of the Cambridge University Press printing (1904).
Through Coit, who abridged Browne and says so: he cut 'that is, to be Ghosts unto our own Eyes', put 'vision' for 'sight', and 'we are almost' for 'to be'. Tolstoy's 'Our chief imperfection is in our inner vision' follows Coit's 'vision'. Then he changes the sense of the rest: Coit's 'while we are so sharp-sighted as to look through others' becomes 'we are terribly far-sighted to see the evil in others' (мы страшно дальнозорки для того, чтобы увидать дурное в других), and 'we are almost invisible unto ourselves' becomes 'but the evil in us is invisible to us' (дурное в нас невидимо для нас). In Browne and Coit we fail to see ourselves; in Tolstoy we fail to see our own evil, the 'evil' twice added. «Браун» is Sir Thomas Browne: the Jubilee name index refers this page (vol. 42, p. 80) to Bishop Edward Harold Browne (1811–1891), as August's index referred «Браун» to a bishop wrongly; Coit's note settles it. No printable.