The Intel protests pit holy tradition against high-technology and point to the dilemma of trying to apply ancient Jewish law in a modern Jewish state.

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And there is much in his writing that recalls the sort of extraordinary virtues and capacities of the citizens of the ancient republican city-state.

他的著作当中有许多响应,特别是美德,以及公民地位的论点,那是属于古代城邦共和所独有。

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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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But you might say just as Machiavelli broke with the dominant model of Christian universalism, so too did he reject the ancient model of the small, autonomous republican state.

但各位也可读到,当马奇亚维利打破,处于优势之基督普遍主义模式的同时，他也拒绝了,古代模式的，小型自治共和国。

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