然而，如果没有看错的话，牧师的力量似乎并不在身体上，倒是在精神上，而且是由天使通过宗教仪式赋予他的。

Yet, if the clergyman were rightly viewed, his strength seemed not of the body. It might be spiritual and imparted to him by angelical ministrations.

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There is no basis for individual rights, or for a critique of existing ideas and institutions, if there is no base either in religion or in reason.

如果没有宗教和理性,人权以及对现有思想和制度的批判,也就没有了保障

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