What to Do? Thoughts Evoked by the Census of Moscow

by graf Leo Tolstoy

[161a] An arshin is twenty-eight inches.

[161b] The fast extends from the 5th to the 30th of June, O.S. (June 27 to July 12, N.S.)

[165] A pood is thirty-six pounds.

[167] Robinson Crusoe.

[168] Here something has been omitted by the Censor, which I am unable to supply.—Trans.

[169] An omission by the censor, which I am unable to supply. Trans.

[178] We designate as organisms the elephant and the bacterian, only because we assume by analogy in those creatures the same conjunction of feeling and consciousness that we know to exist in ourselves. But in human societies and in humanity, this actual sign is absent; and therefore, however many other signs we may discover in humanity and in organism, without this substantial token the recognition of humanity as an organism is incorrect.

[238] v prikusku, when a lump of sugar is held in the teeth instead or being put into the tea.

[252] In English in the text.

[256] An excellent translation of Kriloff’s Fables, by Mr. W. R. S. Ralston, is published in London.