Let me talk about what Hobbes has to say for us today, we who have in many ways become Hobbes' children.

接下来我要谈谈,霍布斯到底给我们，某种意义上讲,也就是他的继承者，留下了什么。

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The Holy Roman Empire, as it was known in the time of Machiavelli, was the successor to the ancient Roman state, the older Roman Empire.

神圣罗马帝国，是马奇亚维利那年代的称号，那是古罗马国的继承者，即较古老的罗马帝国。

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In fact, a French disciple of Hobbes in the next century, a man named La Mettrie, wrote a treatise very much following in the lines of L'Homme Machine Hobbes called L'Homme Machine, " or literally, Man a Machine.

实际上，在下个世纪霍布斯有一个法国的继承者，叫La，Mettrie，他写了一篇论文,在文字上紧紧跟随霍布斯的风格,题目叫，字面上理解，就是“人是机器。

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