So, you can see the whole period till 1945 is an even more horrible thirty years war than that of the seventeenth century.

你可以看出来这段时间一直到1945年,和十七世纪相比之下,是一个更可怕的"三十年战争"

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A Christian civilization was deeply at the root of this cluster of ideas we call Manifest Destiny, as was a virulent kind of nationalism that boomed after the War of 1812 and through the 1820s into the 1830s.

基督教文明是我们所称的命运天定,及其相关思想的核心,它是一种有害的民族主义,在1812年战争后兴起,并流行于十九世纪二十年代和三十年代

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