He was a nice, pleasant young man. It was painful to see him stand there and give answers that were miracles of stupidity.

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In the ancient world,actually,it would've sounded familiar, because there are other stories of other kinds of teachers who'd healed and exorcised demons and performed miracles.

然而在古代，则很耳熟，因为还有其他人，传授知识,治疗百姓，驱魔，创造奇迹的故事。

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The same thing happens in the 1870s, there's a revival of that old time religion, and it's helped by various miracles and that kind of thing, but which I'll talk about in the lecture on religion, which is kind of fun--it's fun to do.

十九世纪七十年代发生了同样的事情,那时候旧时代的宗教复兴了,而它得益于许多神迹之类的,但那是我在宗教讲座上要讨论的东西,那会很有趣的

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