What to Do? Thoughts Evoked By the Census of MoscowTolstoy, Leo, graf
Philosophy
What to Do? Thoughts Evoked By the Census of Moscow
Tolstoy, Leo, graf
Moscow (Russia) -- Social conditions; Social problems
We see that people have been struggling, ever since the world has
endured, with fearful effort, privation, and suffering, against this
universal want, and that they cannot overcome it . . . {168}
Footnotes
{21a} The fine, tall members of a regiment, selected and placed together
to form a showy squad.
{21b} [] Omitted by the Censor in the authorized edition printed in
Russia, in the set of Count Tolstoï’s works.
{24a} Réaumur.
{24b} A drink made of water, honey, and laurel or salvia leaves, which
is drunk as tea, especially by the poorer classes.
{28} [] Omitted by the censor from the authorized edition published in
Russia in the set of count Tolstoi’s works. The omission is indicated
thus . . .
{39} _Kalatch_, a kind of roll: _baranki_, cracknels of fine flour.
{59} An _arshin_ is twenty-eight inches.
{60} A _myeshchanin_, or citizen, who pays only poll-tax and not a guild
tax.
{62} Omitted in authorized edition.
{66} Omitted by the censor in the authorized edition.
{94} Omitted by the Censor in the authorized edition.
{96} Omitted by the Censor in the authorized edition.
{99} Omitted by the Censor in the authorized edition.
{108} Omitted by the Censor from the authorized edition.
{111} Omitted by the Censor in the authorized edition.
{113} Omitted by the Censor in the authorized edition
{116} Omitted by the Censor in the authorized edition.
{122a} Omitted by the Censor in the authorized edition.
{122b} A very complicated sort of whist.
{122c} Omitted by the Censor in the authorized edition.
{124} The whole of this chapter is omitted by the Censor in the
authorized edition, and is there represented by the following sentence:
“And I felt that in money, in money itself, in the possession of it,
there was something immoral; and I asked myself, What is money?”
{135} Omitted by the Censor in the authorized edition.
{138} Omitted by the Censor in the authorized edition.
{139} The above passage is omitted in the authorized edition, and the
following is added: “I came to the simple and natural conclusion, that,
if I pity the tortured horse upon which I am riding, the first thing for
me to do is to alight, and to walk on my own feet.”
{140} Omitted in the authorized edition.
{142a} Omitted in the authorized edition.
{142b} Omitted in the authorized edition.
{152a} “Into a worse state,” in the authorized edition.
{152b} Omitted in the authorized edition.
{154} Omitted in the authorized edition.
{155} Réaumur.
{158} In the Moscow edition (authorized by the Censor), the concluding
paragraph is replaced by the following:—“They say: The action of a single
man is but a drop in the sea. A drop in the sea!
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