God was so afraid of us that He actually doubted His hold on His own empire, an empire that He was only actually able to maintain because of good luck or something like superior military firepower, but certainly nothing as grand and as absolute as omnipotence."

上帝是如此害怕我们,都开始怀疑自己能否驾驭自己的帝国了，他维系这个帝国,靠的是运气或者是强大的火力，绝非是靠什么伟大的无所不能的神力“

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You can find a whole- you can sort of find a deep and abiding kind of American nationalism still in a lot of these budding Southern patriots, even by the 1850s, especially when they get scared about what secession might actually mean.

你会发现,可以说你会发现一种深层持久的,美国民族主义仍旧根植于许多,南方爱国者们心中,甚至到十九世纪五十年代还是如此,特别是当他们开始害怕,脱离联邦会导致何种不可预料的结果

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