Instead of trying to pursue those alternative theories in a systematic fashion, let me just gesture toward some of the things that seem to be missing from that kind of life.

我们不去系统地研究,那些理论，在此我要例举一些,那种生活似乎所缺少的东西。

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And just from this little section of the poem, you can see that the theme of a new kind of education and only that can remedy nature's defects, as Machiavelli calls them. It is this lack of strife, this long lack of strife, that makes people weak.

仅从这首诗的这一小部分中，你能看到一种提倡新型教育的主题,而且只有那样才能弥补本性的缺陷，如马基雅维利所称，正是由于缺少争斗，这种长时期的冲突匮乏，才使得人们变得软弱。

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