And Machiavelli spent a good deal of his adult life in the service of the republic.

而马奇亚维利的成年时光,有一大部份花在这个共和国的公职上。

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Can it be re-directed, can it be re-channeled ? in the service of the public good?

它是否能被重新导向，重新导入,为公共利益服务？

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The point is that they have received what they have through the free exchange of people who have given them their holdings, usually in exchange for providing some other service Good enough.

关键是，他们赚到的这些钱,都是通过与人自由交换得来的,那些人也得到了报酬，通常是以提供其他服务作为交换的,很不错。

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Germany was very effective in these-- they had advanced bureaucracy, a good postal service, and they had a network of post offices all over the country-- every little town had a post office.

德国人处理此事非常有效-,他们推进了行政机制和邮政服务，出现了全国范围的邮局网-,每个小镇都有一所邮局。

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but rather, is there any good reason to think that we're all or most of us are in that situation, are in that state of belief where, although we give lip service to the claim that we're going to die, is there any good reason to believe that fundamentally we don't actually believe it?

而是是否有好的理由认为,我们中全部或者大部分都处于，这样一种相信的状态，虽然我们都声称自己会死，是否有好的理由相信,我们其实根本不相信呢？

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