By the proximate difference. When I say “man is [a] religious animal,” I give a definition of man all the [better] because I truly isolate him from everything that touches him. I distinguish him [from] angels and beasts. I determine his proper genus by a single [word] whose truth is perceptible, visible and, so to speak, palpable.
March […]7.
March […]4.
March 27.
March 28.
March 29.
T122. The place image, not-only and restrictive-only clauses, paired seen/judged and repeated in him remain. The two pronouns distinguish truth from God without replacing the spatial metaphor. [But] interprets mais from […]ais ; [to] contextually interprets à at the complete loss before lui . These English choices do not restore the French or collapse its differing prepositions.
T435. All five source paragraphs remain in one unit. The first paragraph retains ais after the damaged conjunction and an unresolved loss before lui in par rapport […] lui ; no m or à is restored. Vuë has two upper components joined by a narrow bridge, supporting a qualified diaeresis. The repeated en/dans/par relations are not reconciled into one formulation. Paragraph 2 retains ieu with its abraded but identifiable initial i , and an explicit loss before la vérité de nature ; the detached upright before la is not a complete t . Neither Dieu nor et is restored. Both parenthetic alternatives and the separate short third paragraph remain. In the French source, paragraph 4 keeps both quoted judgments, the first comma outside its closing guillemet, and all restrictions. A loss precedes de nécessité without supplying ou . The later residues are érité , ans , univer/elle , néces/aire in two separate words, and e before l’esprit . The first é of érité and both a contours in aire are degraded but identifiable and qualified; the missing v/s/s/s/d components are not supplied. The two connoissance spellings retain oi . Paragraph 5 keeps its roman Ort. sol. circumstance and italic Per differentiam proximam. plus genus proprium . The quote retains n after a loss; the wrapped word keeps meil and eure without recovering l . Before es anges the tall incomplete remnant does not certify a whole d or l ; no grammatical repair is made. Only ot remains of the final damaged noun. The intact des bêtes and all three final adjectives remain. The separate independent comparison is complete: the full page, native left strips spanning all five paragraphs and the vuë crop agree with the conservative damaged openings and qualified upper marks recorded here. This bounded agreement does not restore any missing letter or word; all explicit glyph qualifications remain.
T123. The nominal opening and closing contrast remain, with both explanatory parentheses and the thought/thought repetition. Simple existence is not silently equated with contingency in the body. [God] and [and] contextually render Dieu and et from […]ieu and a whole lost connector before la vérité de nature ; neither opening is recovered in French.
T124. The terse identity and technical intelligible remain, without an added metaphysical explanation.
T125. Both bounded quotations, can-be-or-not-be, both can formulations and the concluding only remain. The repeated truth, plural natures, order/light and necessary-or-even-useful distinctions are preserved. The claims remain Joubert’s; self-interested renders intéressés in its paired evaluative context. The English colons after both quotations clarify the explanatory relation where French has commas. [Or] provisionally interprets ou before de nécessité ; the absent connector is not recovered and an additive et remains possible. [Truth], [without], [universal], both occurrences of [necessary] and [of] contextually interpret vérité , sans , universelle , nécessaire and de from their recorded damaged residues; complete English words are bracketed without restored French letters.
T126. The opening circumstance provisionally expands Ort. sol. as sunrise without supplying a clock time. The two italic Latin spans receive fresh English, By the proximate difference and proper genus, retaining their technical distinction rather than silently substituting species. Touches preserves the physical image of the adjacent things. The single word, three perceptual qualities and so to speak remain. [A], [better], [from] and [word] contextually render un , meilleure , des and mot from […]n , meil[…]eure , […]es and […]ot . Their whole English counterparts are bracketed; the source’s surviving letters remain unchanged. The quote’s comma moves inside the closing English quotation mark under American style.
T127. The contemplation repetition, two divine objects and alternative remain. Let preserves the exhortation. The incomplete day is not supplied from context. [Contemplate] and [in] contextually render contemplent and dans from […]ontemplent and […]ans ; the whole English words receive brackets.
T128. The opening dash and verbless constructions remain. The care/negligence contrast, always, self-correction or rather and repeated mingling remain. Pathos renders pathétique in its emotional/rhetorical sense; oil and movements are kept as images without a supplied machine or mechanism. [What] spans contextual Ce from […]e together with intact qui ; its English bracket is broader than the source gap. [Of] and [mingled] interpret de and mêlée from […]e and […]êlée without restoring French letters. The colon before oil follows the source’s final image relation.
T437. The day retains a qualified 4 with vertical/diagonal components, while the earlier interrupted portion is not certified as a digit. The opening dash and lower-case nominal contrast remain. At the next sentence only e is complete after the damaged initial, and only e before pathétique ; neither C nor d is supplied. The missing first component of mêlée is not certified from its remaining partial arch. The semicolon, ou plutôt alternative, repeated pathétique , final colon and separate Etc. remain. The masculine dissimulé/mêlé and feminine […]êlée are not collapsed, and mouvemens retains its ending without t .
T129. The dependent because opening, repeated then, cheerfulness and place images remain. The masculine il refers to lieu , not feminine âme ; English omits the resumptive pronoun while keeping the place the subject that grows more perfect. Being made cheerful preserves the unmarked participial relation without specifying prior completion. The exhortation continues on 782 within this same paragraph and retains sometimes and the two arrangements, order and rank/place. The qualified directly read 27 March date remains a source label; it is not inferred from sequence. The full continuation has no restored wording.
T438. The 2 retains an upper curved component, diagonal and lower base despite its damaged left edge; 27 is a qualified direct reading rather than a chronological restoration. The paragraph continues at the ordinary text margin on 782; Egayons is not a separate source paragraph. The initial dependent parce que fragment, participial construction and singular il remain without a supplied independent subject. The 782 continuation has plain capital E in Egayons , retains quelquefois , the semicolon, Que formulation and both order/rank terms. No accent or missing word is supplied from familiarity. Independent native comparison supports the qualified 27 reading without eliminating its abrasion limits.
T130. The nominal opening and repeated credit/possessions remain. Credit keeps the possible standing or influence one can use for another, without narrowing it to a monetary loan. The obligation and plural recipients remain.
T439. The opening nominal pair and repeated crédit/biens remain. En retains its relation to the preceding credit; no monetary limitation is imposed.
T131. Both obligations, the unnamed they, also, doubtless and the superlative remain. Possessions/goods renders the material and broader uses of bien/biens beside good nature, preserving the ethical contrast without silently changing all senses to money. Received/could have received remains an alternative.
T132. The initial question, qualified No, your sciences and final as you say remain. Knowledge/sciences keeps the singular general science and plural disciplines distinct without restricting them to modern natural science. Both happiness and enlightenment remain within the double-negative relation.
T441. The complete printed day is retained. Singular la science and plural vos sciences , the direct question, conditional reply and all three negative relations remain. Scavans has c without a cedilla; the type-of-truth distinction and closing address remain.
T133. The parenthetical work-name cue remains literal rather than replacing it with a verified edition title. Gold, beating, thinness, fine thread, lace and sewing preserve the extended material images. Or rather openly revises the image; both denials of use remain.