They had very little to teach or to impose upon those people rather than vice versa.

他们对其教化和施加的影响微乎其微,相反他们却被影响着

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Reason, science, art is the capacity to transform nature by making it, imposing on it, a method that will produce like effects after similar consequences.

理性，科学，艺术是一种能力,是通过创造，施加影响力改变自然的能力，是一种在类似的结果发生后,产生类似结果的能力。

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