It's always Milton's duty - this is the reason that he was put on this earth: to liberate a people from any such constraining customs.

弥尔顿的使命是,-他是为此才诞于世上：,将英格兰民族从所有抑制人的传统中解放出来。

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For some, philosophy represents a form of liberation from confusion, from unruly passions and prejudices, from incoherence.

对某些人而言，哲学代表着一种形式,将人从从困惑，任性的激情，偏见，及无厘头中解放出来。

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But in their worldview, the pro-slavery worldview, ideas like freedom and liberty were simply never absolutes, and many of them will directly reverse Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence and simply say, "Nobody is born equal."

但是在他们的世界观中,亲奴主义者的世界观中,自由和解放的理想永远不是绝对的,他们中许多人,直接颠覆了托马斯杰斐逊的独立宣言,他们说,没有人是生来平等的

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