余曾试图明示，美国人民乃无任何文明之民族，盖因其甚为年轻，不够渊长。
The American people, I have tried to show, are still a nation without any civilization and that is because they are still a young nation.
余旨在告知世人，文明拯救唯一之法——汝如若欲挽救文明，首要之事，当知文明为何。
My object is to tell people that the only way to save civilization — the first thing you must do if you want to save civilization — is to know what civilization is.
依鸿铭之见，如此之说，日本首相不知文明为何也；请容余如此无礼。
It seems to me, when he said that, the Prime Minister of Japan, if I may be permitted to say so, does not know what is civilization.
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