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The Kingdom of God Is Within You — alignment and capture notes

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How the three texts in this bundle were made paragraph-parallel, so that paragraph N of section K points to the same place in the work in every version. It now holds stages 1 and 2: the preface and chapters I–VIII. Stage 3 (IX–XII) will add sections at the end; nothing here will need redoing.

All three segment to 9 sections / 871 paragraphs and pass reader.segment --spine-json.

Johan’s decisions (2026-10-03)

  1. Tolstoy’s chapter summaries are in. Each chapter section opens with its title and short list of contents, in the Russian and the English. They are Tolstoy’s own (PSS prints them as «Оглавление», vol. 28, pp. 294–306; Garnett prints them under each chapter number).
  2. The preface heading is ours. The Russian preface has no heading; the reader needs one to make it a section. «Предисловие» / “Preface” (Garnett and Maude print “Preface”). The three Bible epigraphs open the preface section.
  3. Garnett’s translator’s preface (January 1894) is left out of the reading text. It is mentioned in the overview.
  4. Garnett’s slips get footnotes, in A Confession’s form: Our note, not Garnett’s., then the Russian and a literal English. Her wording is never changed.
  5. A machine translation is in the bundle, as the third witness where the published translations disagree.
  6. Wiener is not in the bundle for now. His text stays in primary-sources/standard-ebooks/ for checks (quote his wording from the 1904 scan, not the e-text, which modernises words).

Section and paragraph numbers

The preface is section 1, so chapter I is section 2, chapter II section 3, and so on to chapter VIII, section 9. Paragraph ids follow: chapter I’s paragraphs are p-2-1, p-2-2…; chapter III’s are p-4-…. Annotations on this bundle carry these ids.

In each chapter, paragraph 1 is the chapter title and paragraph 2 Tolstoy’s summary, so the first paragraph of the chapter text is paragraph 3. The ¶ numbers in the dive’s church-passages.md count chapter III’s text without the title and summary: dive ¶n is paragraph n+2 here (dive ¶33 = III.35 = p-4-35).

The Russian

Extracted fresh from the TEI (extract_tei.py --choice=reg --notes=auto). The new extract is identical to the dive’s of 2026-06-06 — the footnote fix of 2026-06-07 changed nothing in this work.

Text fixes (transmission errors only)

Checked against the scan of PSS vol. 28 in primary-sources/jubilee-edition/vol88/vol88.pdf (the folder numbers are offset: vol88 is Tom 28). Printed page = PDF page − 42.

Oddities left as printed

Spot-checks against the scan

The preface (p. 1: epigraphs and first four paragraphs), Dymond’s answer (p. 19), the Pressensé passage and note 9 (pp. 51–52): all match the Russian file word for word, apart from the fixes above. The Latin-letters-inside-Cyrillic sweep is empty.

Stage 2 was checked more fully: every paragraph of IV–VIII was compared word for word with the scan’s text layer. About fifty paragraphs differed; all but the slips listed above were the scan’s own reading errors (split letters, accent marks). The doubtful places were then read on the printed page: pp. 108, 124, 127, 141, 156, 163 and 297.

Garnett

From the local Gutenberg copy (primary-sources/project-gutenberg/…constance-garnett.epub), converted with its italics and footnotes. Her wording is untouched. Only paragraph breaks were moved, at sentence ends, and every paragraph’s opening and close was read against the Russian, not just counted.

Splits and joins

Garnett paragraphs differently from Tolstoy far more often than Maude did in A Confession. Chapter by chapter:

The exact list is in the appendix at the end of this file.

Places that could not be split cleanly

Footnotes

23 in stage 1. Seven are Garnett’s: her English for Tolstoy’s footnotes (his own remarks, and his translations of the French and German catechism and Pressensé passages, which she keeps in the original in the text). Sixteen are ours, each beginning Our note, not Garnett’s.:

Stage 2 adds 14 footnotes. Seven are Garnett’s: five are her English for Tolstoy’s own notes (PSS 52, 53, 55, 56, 57), and two are her page references for the Maupassant and Rod quotations, which Tolstoy gives in the running text; those two are labelled Garnett’s note; the Russian gives the reference in the text. Seven are ours:

Each footnote says whose it is: Tolstoy’s note. (in all three versions; «Примечание Толстого.» in the Russian), The PSS editors’ translation. for note 3 of the Russian and machine versions, and Our note, not Garnett’s. for ours. Garnett’s text of Tolstoy’s notes keeps her straight quotation marks; ours use curly ones.

Audio (Garnett)

The French and German passages are voiced in their own pronunciation. Names the English voice garbles are respelled for the audio only: in stage 2, Montesquieu, Doucet, Moltke, Caprivi, Claretie, Defourney, Moneta, and Nice the city. The sentence splitter cuts at every initial (“Signor E. G. Moneta”, “G. D. Bartlett”, “Rev. Dr. Reuen Thomas”, “E. M. de Vogüé”); those pieces are joined back into one read-along sentence by the per-book merge list in reader/speech.py, without touching the text.

Machine translation

Translated from the Russian file, paragraph for paragraph, in one pass, unproofed, as for The Great Sin and A Confession. Stage 2 was added the same way. Literal where literal and readable conflict; Tolstoy’s repetitions kept. The French, German and Latin stay as they stand in the Russian text, with Tolstoy’s nine footnotes translated (note 3 keeps its brackets). The headings mirror the Russian: the chapter titles in capitals, the preface heading ours.

Appendix — every split and join in Garnett

Each line names the words in Garnett where a paragraph break was added or removed, in the order applied. Generated from the build markers.

Preface

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

Chapter VII

Chapter VIII