John RuskinДжон Рёскин

… that human work must be done honourably and thoroughly, because we are now Men ; — whether we ever expect to be angels, or ever were slugs, being practically no matter.

And in these days you have to guard against the fatallest darkness of the two opposite Prides;--the Pride of Faith, which imagines that the nature of the Deity can be defined by its convictions; and the Pride of Science, which imagines that the energy of Deity can be explained by its analysis.

Of these, the first, the Pride of Faith, is now, as it has been always, the most deadly, …

Knowledge is like current coin. A man may have some right to be proud of possessing it, if he has worked for the gold of it, and assayed it, and stamped it, so that it may be received of all men as true; or earned it fairly, being already assayed: but if he has done none of these things, but only had it thrown in his face by a passer-by, what cause has he to be proud?

Знание подобно ходячей монете. Человек имеет отчасти право гордиться обладанием ею, если он сам поработал над ее золотом и пробовал ее чеканить, или по крайней мере честно приобрел ее уже испробованною.

And the entire object of true education is to make people not merely _do_ the right things, but _enjoy_ the right things--not merely industrious, but to love industry--not merely learned, but to love knowledge--not merely pure, but to love purity--not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.

But do not suppose that the law which I am stating to you--the great law of art-life--can only be seen in these, …

Wheresoever the search after truth begins, there life begins; wheresoever that search ceases, there life ceases.

Где начинается искание истины, там всегда начинается жизнь; как только прекращается искание истины, прекращается и жизнь.

All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy.

Мы потому любим предметы за их несовершенство, которое божественно предопределено, чтобы законом человеческой жизни было усилие, а законом человеческого суда милосердие.

And as the first order of Wisdom is to know thyself--though the least creature that can be known--so the first order of Charity is to be sufficient for thyself, though the least creature that can be sufficed; and thus contented and appeased, to be girded and strong for the ministry to others.

I mean, and always have meant, simply this, Dora;--that the will of God respecting us is that we shall live by each other's happiness, and life; not by each other's misery, or death.

And to practice patience. I can tell you, children, THAT requires nearly as much practicing as music; and we are continually losing our lessons when the master comes.

Чтобы научиться терпению, нужно практиковаться почти столько же, как и при изучении музыки, а мы между тем почти всегда манкируем, когда учитель приходит.

You may do much harm by indiscreet praise and by indiscreet blame; but remember, the chief harm is always done by blame.

Много вреда можно нанести неосторожной похвалой и осуждением, но главный вред наносится осуждением.

Well, that is the first character of a good and wise man at his work.

To know that he knows very little;--to perceive that there are many above him wiser than he; and to be always asking questions, wanting to learn, not to teach.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern; it is an old saying (Plato's, but I know not if his, first), and as wise as old.

Первая отличительная черта доброго и мудрого человека заключается в сознании, что он знает очень мало, что есть много людей гораздо умнее его, причем он всегда желает узнать, научиться, а не учить.

No man has any data for estimating, far less right of judging, the results of a life of resolute self-denial, until he has had the courage to try it himself, at least for a time: but I believe no reasonable person will wish, and no honest person dare, to deny the benefits he has occasionally felt both in mind and body, during periods of accidental privation from luxury, or exposure to danger.

… ни один честный человек не посмеет отрицать то благотворное влияние, какое имели на его душу и тело хотя бы те случайные лишения в предметах роскоши или опасности, которым он подвергался.

And it is physically impossible that true religious knowledge, or pure morality, should exist among any classes of a nation who do not work with their hands for their bread.

Физически невозможно, чтобы истинно религиозное ведение или чистая нравственность существовали в тех классах народа, которые не добывают своего хлеба трудами рук своих.

I know well how strange, fanciful, or impracticable these suggestions will appear to most of the business men of this day; men who conceive the proper state of the world to be simply that of a vast and disorganized mob, scrambling each for what he can get, trampling down its children and old men in the mire, and doing what work it finds _must_ be done with any irregular squad of labourers it can bribe or inveigle together, and afterwards scatter to starvation.

I stated, in the first two, that the wisdom of art and the wisdom of science consisted in their being each devoted unselfishly to the service of men; …

Искусство тогда только на надлежащем своем месте, когда оно подчинено пользе. Его задача — поучать, но поучать любовно; и оно является постыдным, а не возвышенным, когда бывает только приятно людям, а не помогает им открывать истину.

Treat the servant kindly, with the idea of turning his gratitude to account, and you will get, as you deserve, no gratitude, nor any value for your kindness; but treat him kindly without any economical purpose, and all economical purposes will be answered; in this, as in all other matters, whosoever will save his life shall lose it, whoso loses it shall find it.

Относитесь хорошо к людям в расчете получить выгоду от их благодарности, и вы не получите ни малейшей отплаты за вашу мнимую доброту; но относитесь к ним хорошо без всяких корыстных соображений, и вы достигнете и благодарности и пользы.

If your work is first with you, and your fee second, work is your master, and the lord of work, who is God. But if your fee is first with you, and your work second, fee is your master, and the lord of fee, who is the Devil; and not only the Devil, but the lowest of devils--the 'least erected fiend that fell.'

Если работа для вас главное, а плата вещь второстепенная, то вашим господином является труд и его творец — бог. Но если работа для вас вещь второстепенная, а главное плата, то вы рабы платы и творца ее — дьявола, и притом самого низкого и последнего из дьяволов.

And again, more strongly: "Rob not the poor because he is poor; neither oppress the afflicted in the place of business.

This "robbing the poor because he is poor" is especially the mercantile form of theft, consisting in taking advantage of a man's necessities in order to obtain his labour or property at a reduced price.

The ordinary highwayman's opposite form of robbery--of the rich, because he is rich--does not appear to occur so often to the old merchant's mind; probably because, being less profitable and more dangerous than the robbery of the poor, it is rarely practised by persons of discretion.

«Не будь грабителем бедного, потому что он беден», говорит Соломон. Это «ограбление бедного, потому что он беден», составляет специальную промышленную форму грабежа, состоящую в том, чтобы пользоваться нуждой человека для приобретения его труда или собственности по возможно низкой цене. Противоположная форма обычного ограбления богатого на больших дорогах за то, что он богат, повидимому, как менее выгодная и более опасная, редко практикуется осторожными людьми.

For the failure of all good people nowadays is that, associating politely with wicked persons, countenancing them in their wickedness, and often joining in it, they think to avert its consequences by collaterally labouring to repair the ruin it has caused; …

… and while, in the morning, they satisfy their hearts by ministering to the wants of two or three destitute persons, in the evening they dine with, envy, and prepare themselves to follow the example of, the rich speculator who has caused the destitution of two or three thousand.

They are thus destroying more in hours than they can amend in years; or, at the best, vainly feeding the famine-struck populations, in the rear of a devouring army, always on the increase in mass of numbers, and rapidity of march.

Ошибка всех добрых людей в наше время состоит в том, что, вежливо протягивая руку злым, поддерживая их в их зле и часто даже содействуя им, они надеются отвратить последствие зла, побочно стараясь исправить причиненный им вред.

Таким образом, они разрушают в несколько часов больше, чем в силах исправить в течение десятков лет, или в лучшем случае, тщетно кормя голодающее население в тылу всеистребляющей армии, стараются всё более увеличить численность этой армии и быстроту ее передвижения.

You knock a man into a ditch, and then you tell him to remain content in the 'position in which Providence has placed him.' That's modern Christianity.

You say--'We did not knock him into the ditch.' How do you know what you have done, or are doing?

That's just what we have all got to know, and what we shall never know, until the question with us every morning, is, not how to do the gainful thing, but how to do the just thing; …

Вы толкаете человека в яму и затем говорите ему, что он должен быть доволен тем положением, в которое поставило его провидение. Таково наше современное христианство.

Да, конечно, мы до тех пор не будем сознавать всего, что делаем и чего не делаем, пока каждое утро не будем задавать себе вопроса, как нам в течение дня делать не то, что выгодно, а что справедливо, пока мы не станем настолько, по крайней мере, христианами, чтобы признать справедливость изречения магометан, гласящего, что «час справедливости стоит больше семидесяти лет молитвы».

That is the true and plain fact concerning the relations of every strong and wise man to the world about him. He has his strength given him, not that he may crush the weak, but that he may support and guide them.

Briefly, the constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts; and to strengthen them for the help of others.

Рассматривайте все ваши дарования и знания, как средства, нужные вам для помощи другим.

Сильному и мудрому даны его дары не для того, чтобы угнетать, а чтобы руководить и поддерживать слабого.

L. My dear, it is the proverb of proverbs; Apollo's proverb, and the sun's--but do you think you can know yourself by looking INTO yourself? Never.

You can know what you are, only by looking OUT of yourself. Measure your own powers with those of others; compare your own interests with those of others; try to understand what you appear to them, as well as what they appear to you; and judge of yourselves, in all things, relatively and subordinately; not positively: starting always with a wholesome conviction of the probability that there is nothing particular about you.

… think how many people are noble, if you cannot be; and rejoice in THEIR nobleness.

«Познай самого себя» есть основное правило. Но неужели вы думаете, что можно познать себя, всматриваясь в себя? Нет. Вы можете познать себя, только присматриваясь к тому, что вне вас. Сравнивайте ваши силы с силами других, ваши интересы с их интересами; старайтесь понять, чем вы кажетесь им и они вам, и судите о себе, как о чем-то второстепенном, исходя из уверенности, что в вас, вероятно, нет ничего особенного.

Gentlemen, I pray you very solemnly to put that idea of knowing all things in Heaven and Earth out of your hearts and heads.

It is very little that we can ever know, either of the ways of Providence, or the laws of existence.

But that little is enough, and exactly enough: to strive for more than that little is evil for us; and be assured that beyond the need of our narrow being,--beyond the range of the kingdom over which it is ordained for each of us to rule in serene αὐτάρκεια and self-possession, he that increaseth toil, increaseth folly; and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow.

Never seek for amusement, but be always ready to be amused.

The least thing has play in it—the slightest word, wit, when your hands are busy and your heart is free.

But if you make the aim of your life amusement, the day will come when all the agonies of a pantomime will not bring you an honest laugh.

Никогда не ищите удовольствия, но будьте всегда готовы находить во всем удовольствие.

Если ваши руки заняты, а сердце свободно, то самая ничтожная вещь доставит вам своего рода удовольствие, и вы найдете долю остроумия во всем, что услышите.

Но если вы обратите удовольствие в цель вашей жизни, то настанет день, когда самые комические сцены не вызовут у вас истинного смеха.

All our moral feelings are so in-woven with our intellectual powers, that we cannot affect the one without in some degree addressing the other; …

Ships and armies you may replace if they are lost, but a great intellect, once abused, is a curse to the earth for ever.

Наши нравственные чувства так переплетены с умственными силами, что мы не можем затронуть одних, не затронув и других. Великий ум, однажды искаженный, является навсегда проклятием земли.

But the main judgment question will be, I suppose, for all of us, "Did you keep a good heart through it?

What you were, others may answer for,-- what you tried to be, you must answer for yourself.

Was the heart pure and true--tell us that?

Результаты ваших дел оценят другие; старайтесь только о том, чтобы сердце ваше было чисто и справедливо.

And this the more, because it is one of the appointed conditions of the labor of men that, in proportion to the time between the seed-sowing and the harvest, is the fulness of the fruit; and that generally, therefore, the farther off we place our aim, and the less we desire to be ourselves the witnesses of what we have labored for, the more wide and rich will be the measure of our success.

Одно из определенных условий труда человека состоит в том, что полнота находится в соответствии между временем посева и жатвой, и потому чем отдаленнее вообще цель наших стремлений, чем меньше мы желаем сами видеть плоды наших трудов, тем больше и обширнее будет мера нашего успеха.

Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come.

Каждый человеческий поступок тем почетнее, лучше и великолепнее, чем больше он делается в виду будущего.

… and it is only by the fact of his seeming not to seek your approbation that you may conjecture he deserves it.

But if he does deserve it, be sure that you give it him, else you not only run a chance of driving him from the right road by want of encouragement, but you deprive yourselves of the happiest privilege you will ever have of rewarding his labour.

Если человек заслуживает похвалы, старайтесь не отказывать ему в ней, иначе вы не только рискуете отклонить его от надлежащего пути, лишая его поддержки и одобрения, в котором он нуждается, но и сами лишитесь лучшего преимущества — воздать человеку должное за его труд.

Above all, get quit of the absurd idea that Heaven will interfere to correct great errors, while allowing its laws to take their course in punishing small ones.

If you prepare a dish of food carelessly, you do not expect Providence to make it palatable; neither if, through years of folly, you misguide your own life, need you expect Divine interference to bring round everything at last for the best.

Нужно освободиться от нелепой мысли о том, что Небо может исправить наши ошибки.

… и точно так же, если вы в течение целого ряда безумных лет ложно направляли свою жизнь, то не должны ожидать, что божественное вмешательство направит и устроит всё к лучшему.

What help Turner received from this or that companion of his youth is of no importance to any one now.

Of course every great man is always being helped by everybody, …

… for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons; …

Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

Мудрый человек всегда находит себе помощь во всех, потому что дар его состоит в том, чтобы извлекать добро из всех и из всего.

One thing we know, or may know, if we will,—that the heart and conscience of man are divine; that in his perception of evil, in his recognition of good, he is himself a God manifest in the flesh; that his joy in love, his agony in anger, his indignation at injustice, his glory in self-sacrifice, are all eternal, indisputable proofs of his unity with a great Spiritual Head; …

Одно мы знаем или можем знать, если захотим, а именно, что сердце и совесть человека божественны, что в отрицании зла и признании добра человек сам является воплощенным божеством; …

Твердо знайте и глубоко чувствуйте, что вы должны каждый день вашей жизни посвящать благу других, делая для них всё, что можете. Делая, а не болтая.

Let him be assured of this, that unless important changes are occurring in his opinions continually, all his life long, not one of those opinions can be on any questionable subject true.

All true opinions are living, and show their life by being capable of nourishment; therefore of change.

But their change is that of a tree--not of a cloud.

Все истинные мысли — живые мысли и проявляют свою жизнь в том, что способны питать и изменяться. Но изменяются они подобно дереву, а не облаку.

Now, observe: Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and imperfect energy; it does not mean a stopping short in any good thing, as in Love or in Faith; but it means the power which governs the most intense energy, and prevents its acting in any way but as it ought.

Воздержание не означает подавления или неразвития энергии, не означает приостановки в добре, как, например, в проявлении любви или веры, но, наоборот, силу и энергию, препятствующую делать то, что человек считает дурным.

Bodies of men, or women, then (and much more, as I said before, their souls), must not be bought or sold.

Neither must land, nor water, nor air, these being the necessary sustenance of men's bodies and souls.

Тела мужчин и женщин, а тем более их души не должны быть покупаемы или продаваемы. А если это так, то точно так же не должна быть продаваема земля, потому что это — вещь, необходимая для поддержания тел и душ людских.

Cruel, partly through want of imagination, (a far rarer and weaker faculty in women than men,) and yet more, at the present day, through the subtle encouragement of your selfishness by the religious doctrine that all which we now suppose to be evil will be brought to a good end; …

… doctrine practically issuing, not in less earnest efforts that the immediate unpleasantness may be averted from ourselves, but in our remaining satisfied in the contemplation of its ultimate objects, when it is inflicted on others.

Если вы сознательно не добры ко всем, то будете часто бессознательно жестоки ко многим, и это происходит отчасти вследствие недостатка живости воображения.

For every piece of wise work done, so much life is granted; for every piece of foolish work, nothing; for every piece of wicked work, so much death is allotted.

По мере совершения мудрых дел всё более и более жизни прибывает к человеку.

And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; nor nobly, which is done in pride.

Помните всегда, что ничего нельзя делать прекрасного из соперничества, ничего благородного из гордости.

Perhaps you think there is no chance of your being so; and indeed I hope it is not likely that you should be deliberately unkind to any creature; but unless you are deliberately kind to every creature, you will often be cruel to many.

Если вы сознательно не добры ко всем, то будете часто бессознательно жестоки ко многим, и это происходит отчасти вследствие недостатка живости воображения.

And for the moral tendency of books — no such practised sagacity is needed to determine that.

The sense, to a healthy mind, of being strengthened or enervated by reading, is just as definite and unmistakeable as the sense, to a healthy body, of being in fresh or foul air …

Ум укрепляется изучением нужного и важного для человека и расслабляется изучением ненужного и ничтожного решительно так же, как тело укрепляется или расслабляется свежим или гнилым воздухом или пищей.

It is only the fool who does wrong, and says he 'did it for the best.'

And if there's one sort of person in the world that the Bible speaks harder of than another, it is fools.

Their particular and chief way of saying 'There is no God' is this, of declaring that whatever their 'public opinion' may be, is right: and that God's opinion is of no consequence.

Правда — всегда правда, и зло — всегда зло. Только безумец, делая зло, говорит, что он делает это для чьего-то блага.

Главный и особенный способ отрицать существование бога состоит в том, чтобы признавать всегда безусловно справедливым общественное мнение и не придавать никакого значения мнению бога.

They were made that wise people might take care of them.

That is the true and plain fact concerning the relations of every strong and wise man to the world about him.

He has his strength given him, not that he may crush the weak, but that he may support and guide them.

… consumption absolute is the end, crown, and perfection of production; and wise consumption is a far more difficult art than wise production.

Twenty people can gain money for one who can use it; and the vital question, for individual and for nation, is, never "how much do they make?" but "to what purpose do they spend?"

In the first place, my correspondents write under the conviction,--a very natural one,--that no individual practice can have the smallest power to change or check the vast system of modern commerce, or the methods of its transaction.

I, on the contrary, am convinced that it is by his personal conduct that any man of ordinary power will do the greatest amount of good that is in him to do; …

… and when I consider the quantity of wise talking which has passed in at one long ear of the world, and out at the other, without making the smallest impression upon its mind, I am sometimes tempted for the rest of my life to try and do what seems to me rational, silently; and to speak no more.

Мудрое потребление гораздо труднее мудрого производства.

Люди обыкновенно утверждают, что личная практическая деятельность бессильна сколько-нибудь повлиять на изменение или задержку обширной системы современной промышленности или способов производства и торговли.

Ought we not rather to aim at an ideal of national life, when, of the employments of Englishmen, though each shall be distinct, none shall be unhappy or ignoble; …

… shall be deputed to less fortunate and more covetous races; when advance from rank to rank, though possible to all men, may be rather shunned than desired by the best; …

Не должны ли мы стремиться к такому идеалу народной жизни, при котором возвышение по ступеням общественной лестницы будет не столько пленять, сколько страшить лучших людей?

Men may be beaten, chained, tormented, yoked like cattle, slaughtered like summer flies, and yet remain in one sense, and the best sense, free.

It is verily this degradation of the operative into a machine, which, more than any other evil of the times, is leading the mass of the nations everywhere into vain, incoherent, destructive struggling for a freedom of which they cannot explain the nature to themselves.

Never had the upper classes so much sympathy with the lower, or charity for them, as they have at this day, and yet never were they so much hated by them: …

We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labor; only we give it a false name.

Мы очень много изучали и усовершенствовали в последнее время великое изобретение цивилизации — разделение труда, только мы даем ему ложное название.

What is the main lesson which, as far as we seek any in our classical reading, we gather for our youth from ancient history?

Surely this — that simplicity of life, of language, and of manners gives strength to a nation ; and that luxuriousness of life, subtlety of language, and smoothness of manners bring weakness and destruction on a nation.

You cannot charge me with any exaggeration in this matter; it is impossible to state the truth too strongly, or as too universal.

Простота жизни, языка, привычек придает силу нации, а роскошь жизни, вычурность языка и изнеженность привычек ведет к слабости и погибели.

Wisdom never forgives.

… the lost hour can never be redeemed, and the accomplished wrong never atoned for.

Никогда не вернешь потерянного времени, никогда не исправишь сделанного зла.

You ought to be glad in thinking how much more beauty God has made, than human eyes can ever see; but not glad in thinking how much more evil man has made, than his own soul can ever conceive, much more than his hands can ever heal.

Вы должны радоваться, думая о том, что бог сотворил неизмеримо больше прекрасного, чем в силах охватить человеческий взор, но огорчаться при мысли, что человек сделал гораздо больше зла, чем в силах душа его постичь, а рука — исправить.

Whenever in any religious faith, dark or bright, we allow our minds to dwell upon the points in which we differ from other people, we are wrong, and in the devil’s power.

At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ from other people, but in what we agree with them; …

В каждый момент нашей жизни мы должны стараться отыскивать не то, что нас отделяет от других людей, а то, что у нас с ними общего.

Truth is never learned, in any department of industry, by arguing, but by working, and observing.

And when you have got good hold of one truth, for certain, two others will grow out of it, in a beautifully dicotyledonous fashion, (which, as before noticed, is the meaning of the branch in Logic's right hand).

Истина ни в чем не познается путем разговоров, а только трудом и наблюдением.

И когда вы овладеете одной истиной, — две другие, наверное, предстанут перед вами прекрасные, как первые листочки двусемянодольных растений.

My time fails me — my thoughts how much more — in trying to imagine what this sweet world will be, when the meek inherit it indeed, and the lowliness of every faithful handmaiden has been regarded of her Lord.

… the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.

Not by might, nor by power, but by His Spirit — the meek shall He guide in judgment, and the meek shall He teach His way.

These born few will preach, or sing, or paint, in spite of you; they will starve like grasshoppers, rather than stop singing; and even if you don’t choose to listen, it is charitable to throw them some crumbs to keep them alive.

But the people who take to writing or painting as a means of livelihood, because they think it genteel, are just by so much more contemptible than common beggars, in that they are noisy and offensive beggars.

I am quite willing to pay for keeping our poor vagabonds in the workhouse; but not to pay them for grinding organs outside my door, defacing the streets with bills and caricatures, tempting young girls to read rubbishy novels, or deceiving the whole nation to its ruin, in a thousand leagues square of dirtily printed falsehood, every morning at breakfast.

If people cannot make their bread by honest labour, let them at least make no noise about the streets; but hold their tongues, and hold out their idle hands humbly; and they shall be fed kindly.

Genius must not be sold; the sale of it involves, in a transcendental, but perfectly true, sense, the guilt both of simony and prostitution.

Your labor only may be sold; your soul must not.

Как ужасен бы был мир, если бы не рождались постоянно дети, несущие с собой невинность и возможность всякого совершенства.

Our first and last coincide, though on different grounds; it is the middle stage which is farthest from the truth.

Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble fingers, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.

Детство часто держит в своих слабых пальцах истину, которую не могут удержать люди своими мужественными руками и открытие которой составляет гордость позднейших лет.

Science does its duty, not in telling us the causes of spots in the sun; but in explaining to us the laws of our own life, and the consequences of their violation.

Knowledge is mental food, and is exactly to the spirit what food is to the body (except that the spirit needs several sorts of food, of which knowledge is only one), and it is liable to the same kind of misuses.

It may be mixed and disguised by art, till it becomes unwholesome; it may be refined, sweetened, and made palatable, until it has lost all its power of nourishment; and, even of its best kind, it may be eaten to surfeiting, and minister to disease and death.

Therefore, with respect to knowledge, we are to reason and act exactly as with respect to food.

We are to ask, therefore, first, is the knowledge we would have fit food for us, good and simple, not artificial and decorated? and secondly, how much of it will enable us best for our work; and will leave our hearts light, and our eyes clear?

Наука — это пища для ума. И эта пища для ума может быть так же вредна, как и пища телесная, если она не чиста, подслащена и если принимаешь ее не в меру.

Для того, чтобы этого не было, надо так же, как в телесной пище, принимать ее только тогда, когда голоден, когда чувствуешь необходимость узнать, — только тогда, когда знание нужно для души.

Well, Lily, we must go through a little dreadfulness, that's a fact: no road to any good knowledge is wholly among the lilies and the grass; there is rough climbing to be done always.

Никогда путь к доброму знанию не пролегает по шелковистой мураве, усеянной лилиями; всегда человеку приходится взбираться по голым скалам.

How strange it seems that physical science should ever have been thought adverse to religion!

The pride of physical science is, indeed, adverse, like every other pride, both to religion and truth; but sincerity of science, so far from being hostile, is the path-maker among the mountains for the feet of those who publish peace.

Странно думать, что физические науки могут когда-нибудь быть враждебны религии.

Науки, как и всё тщеславное, враждебны не только религии, но и истине; истинная же наука не только не враждебна религии, но и прокладывает в горах тропинку для идущих вещать мир.

We talk of learned and ignorant men, as if there were a certain quantity of knowledge, which to possess was to be learned, and which not to possess was to be ignorant; instead of considering that knowledge is infinite, and that the man most learned in human estimation is just as far from knowing anything as he ought to know it, as the unlettered peasant.

Знание бесконечно, и человек, самый ученый, по мнению людей, так же далек от истинного знания, как и безграмотный крестьянин.

Care in nowise to make more of money, but care to make much of it; remembering always the great, palpable, inevitable fact--the rule and root of all economy--that what one person has, another cannot have; and that every atom of substance, of whatever kind, used or consumed, is so much human life spent; which, if it issue in the saving present life, or gaining more, is well spent, but if not, is either so much life prevented, or so much slain.

Помните всегда великую и неизменную истину — правило и основу всей экономии, что то, что́ вы имеете, не может иметь никто другой и что каждый атом любого вещества, которым вы пользуетесь или который вы потребляете, представляет собою частицу человеческой жизни.

Если она идет на поддержание или спасение настоящей жизни или на развитие и создание большей жизни, то потреблена хорошо, в противном же случае она или задерживает развитие жизни или губит ее.

Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close:--then let every one of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others--some goodly strength or knowledge gained for yourselves; …

It is as little the part of a wise man to reflect much on the nature of beings above him, as of beings beneath him. It is immodest to suppose that he can conceive the one, and degrading to suppose that he should be busied with the other.

To recognize his everlasting inferiority, and his everlasting greatness; to know himself, and his place; to be content to submit to God without understanding Him; and to rule the lower creation with sympathy and kindness, yet neither sharing the passion of the wild beast, nor imitating the science of the Insect;--this you will find is to be modest towards God, gentle to His creatures, and wise for himself.

So that the soul of man is still a mirror, wherein may be seen, darkly, the image of the mind of God.

… the soul of man is a mirror of the mind of God. A mirror dark, distorted, broken, use what blameful words you please of its state; yet in the main, a true mirror, out of which alone, and by which alone, we can know anything of God at all.

I have said enough, I think, to induce you to bear with me in the statement of my main theorem--that reading and writing are in no sense education, unless they contribute to this end of making us feel kindly towards all creatures; but that drawing, and especially physiologic drawing, is vital education of a most precious kind.

Degrees infinite of lustre there must always be, but the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which worthily used will be a gift also to his race forever--

But “_station_ in Life”—how many of us are ready to quit _that_? Is it not always the great objection, where there is question of finding something useful to do—“We cannot leave our stations in Life”?

But with most people who use that apology, “remaining in the station of life to which Providence has called them” means keeping all the carriages, and all the footmen and large houses they can possibly pay for; and, once for all, I say that if ever Providence _did_ put them into stations of that sort—which is not at all a matter of certainty—Providence is just now very distinctly calling them out again.

Levi’s station in life was the receipt of custom; and Peter’s, the shore of Galilee; and Paul’s, the antechambers of the High Priest,—which “station in life” each had to leave, with brief notice.

You are ashamed? Yes; that false shame is the Devil’s pet weapon. He does more work with it even than with false pride. For with false pride, he only goads evil; but with false shame, paralyzes good.

And it will be found ultimately by all nations, as it was found long ago by those who have been leaders in human force and intellect, that the initial virtue of the race consists in the acknowledgment of their own lowly nature and submission to the laws of higher being. “Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return,” is the first truth we have to learn of ourselves; and to till the earth out of which we were taken, our first duty: in that labour, and in the relations which it establishes between us and the lower animals, are founded the conditions of our highest faculties and felicities: …

… and without that labour, neither reason, art, nor peace, are possible to man.

I find this more and more every day: an infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all the truly great men.

Now you all know, that anything which makes religion its second object, makes religion _no_ object. God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing He will _not_ put up with in it--a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers Him no place.

Also this fact is historically certain,—that the Life of God is not to be discovered by reasoning, but by obeying; that on doing what is plainly ordered, the wisdom and presence of the Orderer become manifest; that only so His way can be known on earth, and His saving health among all nations; and that on disobedience always follows darkness, the forerunner of death.

… they may rest assured that the safest and purest joys of human life rebuke the violence of its passions ; that they are obtainable without anxiety, and memorable without regret.