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The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion.

  • -- Elihu Root 伊莱休·鲁特

文明进步中阻力最小的路线是通过不断增加的世界舆论力量使这一理论假设成为现实。

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A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

文明是一种信仰、习俗和知识的遗产，在几个世纪的过程中慢慢积累起来，这些元素有时很难用逻辑来证明，但当它们指向某个地方时，就会证明自己是正确的路径，因为它们为人类打开了内心的距离。

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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

舆论是一种渗透的影响，它要求服从自己;它要求我们吸收别人的思想，说别人的话，遵循别人的习惯。

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And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

我们把科学归功于天才个人的综合能力，而不是文明固有的任何进步趋势。

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Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.

暴民法是一种异常民意最有力的表达方式;这表明社会已经腐败到了极点。

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