Why did God place the stupid fruit in the garden in the first place if he knew in advance that Adam and Eve were going to eat the thing?

如果他事先就知道偷食禁果的事情会发生,为什么还要把这个不祥的果实就那么放在园子里？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

In almost every poem Walt Whitman wrote he seems to be fashioning himself, if not the whole of this American people, which sometimes he did call an American race, as a new Adam.

在沃尔特·惠特曼所写的的几乎每首诗中,他似乎都是在标榜自己,如果不是标榜美国人民的话,但他确实有时将美利坚民族,称为一个新的亚当

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选