Will the best regime be a small closed society ? that through generations has made a supreme sacrifice towards self-perfection? Think of that.

最优的政体会是一个小型封闭的社会吗,经过多代之后，已壮烈地牺牲于自我完善之中,想想这个问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

They also had a creation story. They had a flood story. They did animal sacrifices. They observed purity taboos. Israelite religion was another Ancient Near Eastern religion and they differed from their neighbors only over the number of gods they worshiped: one or many.

他们都有原创的神话，他们都有一个关于洪水的神话,都有动物牺牲，他们都尊崇高洁的竹子,以色列宗教是另一种古近东宗教，它们和别的宗教,唯一不同之处就在于崇拜的神的数量：一个还是多个。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Or Roosevelt, after World War Two, talking about our humility as a nation in the face of the sacrifice of our soldiers, or Lincoln, or Washington, These are people who understood that they were small parts of something much larger.

第二次世界大战之后，罗斯福总统，也讲过一个国家的谦逊,面对战士的牺牲，无论是林肯还是华盛顿，这些人都很请楚,他们都只是很渺小的一部分。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

If you imagined a choice between this one gene that makes the animal choose to die and the other gene that makes an animal choose for its brothers to die, the gene that sacrifices the body it belongs to will make more copies in the future.

如果你想象做一个选择,一个基因让动物选择死亡,另一个基因让动物,选择为它的兄弟死亡，自我牺牲的基因,将来会复制更多自己。

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