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{20} 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?"
{21} Omitted by the Censor in the authorized edition.
{22} Omitted by the Censor in the authorized edition.
{23} 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."
{24} Omitted in the authorized edition.
{25} Omitted in the authorized edition.
{26} "Into a worse state," in the authorized edition.
{27} Omitted in the authorized edition.
{28} Omitted in the authorized edition.
{29} Reaumur.
{30} 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!
"There is an Indian legend relating how a man dropped a pearl into
the sea, and in order to recover it he took a bucket, and began to
bail out, and to pour the water on the shore. Thus he toiled without
intermission, and on the seventh day the spirit of the sea grew
alarmed lest the man should dip the sea dry, and so he brought him
his pearl. If our social evil of persecuting man were the sea, then
that pearl which we have lost is equivalent to devoting our lives to
bailing out the sea of that evil. The prince of this world will take
fright, he will succumb more promptly than did the spirit of the sea;
but this social evil is not the sea, but a foul cesspool, which we
assiduously fill with our own uncleanness. All that is required is
for us to come to our senses, and to comprehend what we are doing; to
fall out of love with our own uncleanness,--in order that that
imaginary sea should dry away, and that we should come into
possession of that priceless pearl,--fraternal, humane life."
{31} An arshin is twenty-eight inches.
{32} The fast extends from the 5th to the 30th of June, O.S. (June
27 to July 12, N.S.)
{33} A pood is thirty-six pounds.
{34} Robinson Crusoe.
{35} Here something has been omitted by the Censor, which I am
unable to supply.--TRANS.