With this utterly original fable about the fragmentation of what we think of as religious truth, Milton goes out of his way -- this is remarkable.

用这个最原始的关于破碎,的宗教真理的寓言，弥尔顿又开始偏离自己的路线，这很值得注意。

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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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Even religious truths, which, of course, even religious truths have to be subjected to the final arbiter, who is the individual's conscience and the individual's power of reason.

当然，即使是最强有力的知识形式，即使是宗教真理也必须受制于最终的裁决者，也就是个人的良心和推理的力量。

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It would have been perfectly reasonable for them, his opponents, to assume that only one set of religious beliefs could actually represent the truth, that there was only one possible manifestation of divine truth.

这本应该是他的反对者们最完美的理由,去设想仅仅一整套的宗教信条就可以代表真理，只有一个虔诚的真理的表达。

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It was becoming absolutely impossible, in fact, or at least much, much harder, to claim that there was a single expression of religious truth to which the English nation could consensually subscribe.

实际上，这是绝对不可能的，至少也是很难断言称,这种宗教真理是,整个英国都能勉强赞同的。

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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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