The notion of autonomy, the notion of the freedom of the poem from any kind of dependence in the world, is something that is very easy to undermine critically.

自主的观念，世界上各种,独立的诗的自由，很容易被破坏。

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The principle of monism had just introduced itself in England around the mid-1640s, around, it's been argued, the time that Milton's writing Areopagitica, and it met with all sorts of opposition.

一元论原理在17世纪40年代中期,弥尔顿写作《论出版自由》的时候,刚刚传到英格兰，即遭到各种反对。

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Is a healthy society ? one that is literally open to every point of view, ? freedom of speech is naturally a cherished good, ? is it the supreme good?

健全的社会,基本上就是对各种观点持开放态度吗，言论自由本质上就是好的，或它是最好？

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