Request for assistance with Gorky quote

[Helena Goscilo]

Earlier, de Tocqueville.

Helena Goscilo

> Subject: Re: Request for assistance with Gorky quote
>
> While it's true that in 1925 Gorky wrote:  "Vysota kul'tury
> opredeliaetsia otnosheniem k zhenshchine," in 1883 Ivan Franko
> began his article "Zhinocha nevolia v rus'kykh pisniakh narodnykh" with
> the following sentence:
>
>         Koly se pravda, shcho miroiu kul'turnosti vsiakoho narodu
>         mozhe sluzhyty to, iak toi narod obkhodit'sia z zhinkamy,
>         to i se bezperechna pravda, shcho rus'ko-ukrains'kyi narod
>         pislia sei miry pokazhet'sia vysoko kul'turnym u vidnoshenni
>         do druhykh susidnikh narodiv.
>
> Franko's formulation ("If it's true that...") suggests that he might
> have been referring to an already existing aphorism, but I haven't yet
> found an earlier source.
>                                 Bob Rothstein
>

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