《旧制度与大革命·卷二·第二十章·革命自然从既有事实中产生》第18节
[The chapters which follow were not included in the work first published by M. de Tocqueville in 1855. They are the continuation of it, left unfinished at the time of his death in 1859, and published in 1865 by M. de Beaumont amongst the posthumous works of his friend. They are now translated for the first time. Although they must be regarded as incomplete, since they never received the final revision of the author, and the latter portions of them are fragmentary, yet they are not, I think, unworthy to form part of the work to which they were intended to belong, and a melancholy interest attaches to them as the last meditations of a great and original thinker. In the French text an attempt has been made to distinguish, by a different type, the passages which are more carefully finished from those which consisted merely of notes for further elaboration. But as this arrangement breaks the uniformity of the text more than is necessary, I have not adopted it.--H. R.] _
注释摘要
这段文字并非托克维尔本人的论述，而是本书的英译者或编者所加的一段注释，说明手头文本的来源与性质。按它的署名“H. R.”，这位编者告知读者：正文至此已结束，随后诸章原本并不在一八五五年出版的初版《旧制度与大革命》之中。它们是托克维尔留下的续稿，直到一八五九年他去世时仍未定稿，后由其友人博蒙于一八六五年编入遗著集中出版。对当时的英译本读者来说，这些篇章是第一…