Omit ne in translating. The conjunctions

à moins que, de peur que, de crainte que, and verbe expressing fear, used affirmatively, require the subjunctive mood preoeded by ne. However, according to the set of lioenses adopted by the Minister of Public Instruction of France in his decree of February 26, 1901, the omission of ne is no longer to be considered a mistake.

Ce n*est pas que, it was not because.

Tant... obscure, so obscure did it become.

8e fit reconnaître... d, made himself known... by.