Abbas Milani, an analyst at The Hoover Institution, "I certainly know of no time in Iranian history where the democratic discourse, and the social basis of democracy have been as strong."

VOA: standard.2010.06.11

Sidney's talking about the various kinds of discourse: - divinity, hymnody, science, philosophy, history-- in other words, all the ways in which you can contribute to human betterment and human welfare. He says in the case of all but one of them, each discourse is a "serving science."

西德尼进行了很多方面的阐述：,神学，赞美诗，科学，哲学，历史-,换句话说，所有你能想到的,对人类福祉有益处的方式,他说这里面除了诗学，其他都是“服务性学科“

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