Religious evolutions (such as processions, genuflections, bowings of body and head, walking, in short, and stations) are neither of little effect nor of little importance. They make the heart supple and bend the mind toward faith.
November 2.
Do not show the reverse and the exergue to those who have not yet seen the medal. That is to say, do not speak of the faults of good people (and above all of your friends) to those who know neither their face, nor their life, nor their merit.
Poetic manners and Of poetic manners. — One must have poetic manners; that is to say, those manners that well become human nature, every fortune, kings as well as shepherds, and that would be suited to giving a gentle pleasure to all to whom they might be recounted.
Poetic manners are especially fitting for poets.
Patriarchal manners, austere manners, holy manners.
Poetic manners are those of the golden age, patriarchal manners those of the Bible, austere manners those of history, and holy manners those of legends. Legends must therefore be part of our studies and our observations.
November 3.
Philantosophy and philantosophers.
Philosophy is the love of wisdom. Now, love of wisdom is only love of our duties. Meditate, contemplate, observe, compare, examine finally, and decide. It is that and nothing else. Now philantosophy, or the exposition of philosophy, is love of the knowledge of our rights or of the forgetting of our duties.
“A corrupted curiosity” — very good — “through ignorance?” — yes, through ignorance “of duties.”
Labors and continence are a fine gymnastics; and that was the spirit of the ancient kind.
Beautiful feelings beautify. See on the human face the expression and admirable arrangement that modesty, respect, piety, compassion, the feeling of innocence give [it].
Add, and mark well, that love of wisdom is love of duties. Meditate, contemplate, compare, examine finally, and decide. It is that and not something else.
Note. Journal de la Quotidienne ; the abbé de Lamenais’s expression: “a purple mantle on a skeleton.”
... with our philosophical and icy tone.
In good company, one must be teasing, mocking and joking with wit, with grace, with charm, or not be so.
T175. Evolutions retains the source term in the sense of movements, not biological change. The complete parenthetic list, paired neither-little negatives and supple/bending images remain. Stations stays a liturgical or stopping-place term without identifying a particular devotion. The one paragraph crosses 881–882.
T396. One undated paragraph crosses to 882, ending before its centered separator and November 2 label. The full sta-/tions and assou-/plissent wraps are visible; no page-boundary punctuation or paragraph is inserted. Both negative degree phrases and both final predicates remain. All new 881 body paragraphs are roman, with no source annotation. The source specialist’s facsimile collation records the dates, readable but abraded left starts, historical spellings, baseline Mme , assés accent and the incoming 882 continuation, with all stated individual reading qualifications retained.
T176. The paired prohibitions, medal metaphor and explanatory That is to say remain. French n’auront pas vu is future perfect; English have not yet seen idiomatically adapts its prior-seeing condition rather than reproducing that tense literally. Exergue retains the technical numismatic term for the space below the principal device, often bearing an inscription; it is not silently reduced to the medal’s edge. The parenthetic above all and all three neither/nor objects remain.
T397. The complete 2 and two negative imperatives remain. N’auront pas vu is a future perfect; C’est à dire is printed without hyphens. The parenthetic et surtout and three ni members remain, with no identification of a particular medal.
T177. The two topic forms, capital Of, repeated manners and obligation remain. Every fortune keeps the range of circumstances rather than money alone; kings/shepherds and both conditional clauses remain. Manners is used for lived conduct and customs, not merely etiquette. The source retains literal seyent and poëtiques with its qualified e -diaeresis; these are not source losses.
T178. Especially and the poetic/poets relation remain in a separate paragraph. Literal poëtiques and poëtes retain their qualified e -diaereses in the French.
T179. The three nominal terms and all repetitions remain without added definitions.
T180. All four correspondences, repeated legends, obligation, therefore and studies/observations remain. Legends is kept broad enough for accounts of saints in this holy-manners context, without replacing the source with an identified collection. English capitalizes Bible conventionally; the French literally prints lowercase bible .
T181. The two related formations retain philantosophie/philantosophes through English endings. They are not silently regularized to philanthropy or philosophy; the following separate entry develops the contrast.
T399. The complete 3 governs this nominal formulation. Both unusual related formations remain literal, without correction to philosophie or philanthropie .
T182. The repeated love/wisdom/duties, only, all six imperatives and categorical nothing-else remain. An original-size crop distinctly reads exposé , rendered exposition, not the contextually tempting opposé , opposite. The unusual philantosophy remains, as do knowledge/forgetting and rights/duties; no silent philosophical correction is made.
T400. The literal exposé is clear in color and native 414, not opposé . The six imperatives, restrictive ne…que , categorical rien and distinct rights/duties relations remain. The nominal interpretation is not repaired on philosophical grounds.
T183. The three quotation spans, two responses and question remain. English moves the terminal period inside the last quotation; no speaker or external quotation is identified. The French retains corrompuë with its qualified e -diaeresis.
T184. The plural labors, continence, singular kind of gymnastics and past was remain. The ancient kind refers back to gymnastics without identifying a school or replacing it with exercise in general.
T402. The semicolon, explicit et , past c’étoit and feminine ancienne remain; the latter refers contextually to gymnastique . No ancient institution is identified.
T185. Beautiful/beautify keeps the repeated root. The direct exhortation, expression/arrangement pair and all five qualities remain. [It] corresponds to the printed editor’s [lui] , referring to the face; it is not a reproduction-loss reconstruction. The French literally prints embélissent with acute é after b and one l , and the historical plural sentimens ; ordinary English beautify and feelings do not reproduce those spellings.
T186. The two opening imperatives and repeated love remain. This distinct entry’s five-item list lacks observe, which is not imported from the earlier six-item list. The printed des devoir is contextually rendered duties without silently regularizing its French form.
T404. The printed des devoir retains singular-form devoir after des . This separate five-imperative list lacks observez ; the earlier six-item list is not imported. Pas autre chose differs from earlier rien autre chose and remains literal.
T187. The newspaper designation and source spelling Lamenais are retained without a verified issue, identity expansion or external quotation. The image is freshly translated from French; English moves its period inside the closing quotation. Only Note. including its period corresponds to italic Nota. ; the newspaper wording, attribution and quotation remain roman.
T405. In the French source, only Nota. including its period is italic; the newspaper wording, attribution and quotation are roman. Literal Lamenais crosses the complete Lame-/nais wrap. The period follows the closing quotation; no newspaper issue or external occurrence is certified.
T188. The opening ellipsis, our and two qualities remain in a fragment; icy preserves the physical severity without adding a preceding clause. Its three opening dots are printed ellipsis, not a reproduction-loss marker.
T406. The three initial dots are printed ellipsis, not a reproduction-loss marker. The possessive and two qualities remain in a fragment.
T189. The three modes, three with phrases, obligation and final negative alternative remain. So refers back to the teasing/mocking/joking conduct; it is not changed into a prohibition on entering good company.
T407. Three conduct terms, three avec phrases, obligation and final negative alternative remain. The paragraph ends on 882; the centered separator/new date at 883 starts a different unit. The source specialist’s facsimile collation records the 882 dates, historical spellings and upper marks, exposé , embélissent , printed [lui] , des devoir , single italic French Nota. scope and complete right margins, with all stated individual reading qualifications retained.