A lot has happened since the exuberant optimism of the political spirit that we see in a tract like Areopagitica.

弥尔顿在《论出版自由》中发表了极为乐观的政治思想之后,政治形势发生了很大变化。

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Under that heading you might call "American Progress" came the sense of American mission: spreading liberty, spreading democracy, spreading Christianity.

在"美国式进步"的带领下,发展成为一种美国的使命,即推广自由民主,传播基督教思想

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

It rejects the pagan idea of a realm beyond the deity, the source of mythology and magic. The affirmation that the will of God is supreme and absolutely free is a new and non-pagan category of thought".

这推翻了异教中的观点，即存在超越神性的，作为神话和巫术之源的领域，上帝的意愿是无上,并且绝对自由的，这一论断,是一个全新的且与异教思想无关的内容，“

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Belial is the lovely intellectual, the intellectual seeking peace and who prizes above all things his intellectual freedom: our thoughts, as Belial puts it, our "thoughts that wander through eternity."

贝利亚是一位可爱的智者，他追求和平以及,视他智慧的自由超乎一切：，我们的思想，贝利亚认为“我们的思想永远在游荡“

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And yet for others, he opened the door to John Locke and the liberal theory of government.

对其他人而言，他却为洛克的思想,以及政府自由主义理论开创了先河。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Into some of that space, towns and cities reappeared and with them new supports for freedom.

在那些地方,城市和城镇得以再度兴起,自由的思想也得到进一步发展

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And in later letters in this series between her and Richard, and also in the review that she wrote up for the Book of the Month Club newsletter), she invokes the Nazis specifically as a comparison to the kind of oppression that Richard was trying to escape in the South.

她在之后与理查的通信中，把理查在南方,与德国纳粹做比较，当时社会的主流思想,就是在为了美国式的理想,为了自由而战。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I would even say the necessary and inevitable conflict between the freedom of the mind and the requirements of political life.

我甚至会说，这是必需,且无可避免的冲突，介于,思想自由与政治生活条件之间。

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