It's a process of undoing and undermining that really eats away at the argument, we could argue, throughout the entirety of Areopagitica.

这是个论点开始慢慢被侵蚀破坏的过程,我们可以争论这点，贯穿整个《论出版自由》中。

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Soil was being eroded and wasted along the Eastern seaboard, and they were using up the great soils of the Mississippi Valley and over time that slave system just somehow wasn't going to work out.

东部沿海地区的土地因被侵蚀而荒废掉,密西西比河谷地区的土地资源即将被耗尽,但就在这种情况下,奴隶制依然能维持南方的经济

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