But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.

  • -- Herbert Read 赫伯特·里德

但是,只有通过细胞分裂的过程,才能使个体得到区别,使个体区别于母体,并独立于母体,从而获得文明的品质或文化。

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In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.

在我们这样一个文明近现代的国家,几乎无穷无尽的物质财富财富带来了资本和劳动产业的风险,物质利益在某种程度上吸引了人们的注意力,这是很自然的,但在其他地方却不为人知。

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.

文明始于秩序,在自由中成长,在混乱中消亡。