The Christian Church might have stepped into the breach and imposed obedience and uniformity, because before terribly long, all of the West had been Christianized.

这时基督教试图接管国家,宣扬服从和统一的思想,因为很早以前,基督教在西方就根深蒂固了

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Where other peoples have seen sameness and continuity, the Greeks and the heirs of their way of thinking, have tended to notice disjunctions and to make distinctions.

别的民族看事物的统一性和连续性,希腊人传承传统思想,看到的多是事物的不同点,进行比较

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