William Kingdon CliffordУильям Кингдон Клиффорд
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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.
1. Если чтó правда, то давайте верить в это все: бедные, богатые, мужчины, женщины и дети. Если же чтó неправда, то не будем верить никто: ни богатые, ни бедные, ни толпы людей, ни женщины, ни дети. Истину надо провозглашать с крыш.
Постоянно нашептывают, что опасно открывать некоторые вещи народу. Говорят: мы знаем, что это неправда, но это так полезно для народа; можно сделать много зла, поколебав его веру.
Но кривые пути остаются кривыми, хотя бы они были предназначены для обмана больших масс народа, а не отдельных личностей. И потому мы признаем только одно побуждение: следование истине, которую знаем, куда бы она ни привела нас.
1. If a thing is true, let us all believe it: the poor, the rich, men, women, and children. But if a thing is not true, let none of us believe it: neither the rich, nor the poor, nor the crowds of people, nor women, nor children. The truth must be proclaimed from the housetops.
It is constantly being whispered that it is dangerous to reveal certain things to the people. They say: We know that this is not true, but it is so useful for the people; much evil can be done by shaking their faith.
But crooked ways remain crooked, even if they are meant for deceiving great masses of the people and not single individuals. And so we acknowledge only one motive: following the truth we know, wherever it may lead us.
From Clifford, 'Right and Wrong: The Scientific Ground of their Distinction' · joined by Tolstoy from several places (more).
What Tolstoy read · Stanton Coit, The Message of Man… all disbelieve it, rich and poor, men, masses women, and children.
… shouted from the house-tops.
… you don't know what harm you might do by shaking their faith in it …
… crooked because they arc meant to deceive great masses of people instead of individuals.
… follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us …
Ixxix. , 34
Source text: archive.orgClifford’s own wordsSecondly, veracity to the community depends upon faith in man.
And yet it is constantly whispered that it would be dangerous to divulge certain truths to the masses.
I know the whole thing is untrue : but then it is so useful for the people ; you don't know what harm you might do by shaking their faith in it.
Crooked ways are none the less crooked because they are meant to deceive great masses of people instead of individuals.
… rich and poor, men, women, and children. If a thing is untrue, let …
Truth is a thing to be shouted from the …
… housetops, not to be whispered over rose-water after dinner when the ladies are gone away.
Source text: archive.orgDetails
The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Clifford, 'Right and Wrong: The Scientific Ground of their Distinction' (Fortnightly Review, 1875), in Lectures and Essays, vol. II (London, Macmillan, 1879); reordered, with a sentence of Felix Adler's, in Stanton Coit, The Message of Man (1902), ch. LXXIX 'The Truth Shall Make You Free', vv. 30-34, Lectures and Essays II, pp. 175-176; Coit ch. LXXIX, vv. 30-34.
Tolstoy follows Coit, who sets Clifford's sentences in a new order (vv. 30-33: true and untrue, then the whisper, then the crooked ways) and adds as v. 34 a sentence his notes and index credit to Felix Adler: 'We acknowledge but one motive,--to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us'. Tolstoy translates the five verses closely, without 'Veracity to the community depends upon faith in man' and the end of Adler's sentence ('but, in our heart of hearts, we are well assured that the truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also'); like Coit he stops at 'shouted from the house-tops', before Clifford's 'not to be whispered over rose-water after dinner when the ladies are gone away'. Coit prints the margin note 'Truth for the masses' beside v. 30, and its last word falls in the line 'rich and poor, men, masses / women, and children'; Tolstoy's second list has 'crowds of people' where Clifford has 'men', probably from it. Adler's sentence was not found in his own writings. The Jubilee name index takes «Клиффорд» for an 'Arthur Clifford (d. 1830)'; the author is William Kingdon Clifford, and Tolstoy's name is right for all but the last sentence.