William MorrisУильям Моррис
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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.
2. Можно допустить, что искусство умрет, но немыслимо, чтобы искусство могло жить, раболепствуя перед богатством и глумясь над бедностью.
2. One may grant that art will die, but it is unthinkable that art could live while groveling before wealth and mocking poverty.
From Hopes and Fears for Art · reworded by Tolstoy (more).
What changedArt as “the token of the enduring slavery of the poor” becomes art “mocking poverty.”
Morris’s own words… it may be she will die, but it cannot be that she will live the slave of the rich, and the token of the enduring slavery of the poor.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Hopes and Fears for Art (1882), lecture 'Making the Best of It' (Gutenberg text of the 1919 Longmans printing), Near the end of the lecture.
The first half is close: 'it may be she will die, but it cannot be that she will live the slave of the rich'. The second changes: 'the token of the enduring slavery of the poor' becomes «глумясь над бедностью» (mocking poverty), so art as the sign of the poor's slavery becomes art's contempt for them.