《市场心智》的作者麦可·薛默希望我们可以理解，自然界和社会中几乎一切重要的事物“都是自下而上发生的，而不是自上而下。”

Author Michael Shermer (the Mind of the Market) wishes we would understand that almost everything important in nature and society "happens from the bottom up, not the top down."

youdao

虽然人们此后可以通过锻炼而充分发挥这些潜能，但无论这种来自社会的改造工程有多大，都无法从根本上把千差万别的心智机能修复得平平整整，毫无差异，而最终实现智力上的完全平等。

Although subsequent experience shapes this potential, no amount of social engineering can make individuals with widely divergent mental aptitudes into intellectual equals.

youdao

当时人们认为心智健全的孩子都渴望长大，也认识到童年比现在社会一般允许的要结束得早得多。

It assumed that sane children want to grow up and recognized that childhood ends much earlier than modern society typically allows.

youdao