In Stevens, modernity shows us that the truth of religion was always a fiction, a fundamentally poetic construction.

在史蒂文斯的诗里，现代性向我们展示了,宗教的真理不过是虚构之言，是最基本的诗意创作。

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And suddenly there are dozens and dozens of competing expressions of religious truth, and so you have a new proliferation of new religions and new religious ideas that comes about as the immediate product of the freedom of the press.

突然有许多许多,与之相对抗的宗教真理，所以我们有了迅速增多的新的宗教,和新的宗教观念,随着出版自由而产生的产物。

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