Progress in the eyes of the philosophers of the eighteenth century, though they would have been very angry to hear me say this, was something like the equivalent of the Christian hope for immortality.

进步在十八世纪的哲学家眼中,尽管他们也许会对我的说法很不满,与基督教对永生的信仰类似

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