He suggested that individual organisms changed in reaction to their environment and passed on these traits to the next generation.

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More specifically, what does it mean to say that an individual can be seen ? as magnified in his or her country, or that one's country is simply the collective expression of certain individual traits of character?

更确切地说，如果我们提到一个人,可以被视为是其国家的放大镜,那意谓着什么，或是某人的国家,就是特定,个人特征的集体呈现？

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Every regime will produce a distinctive kind of individual, and this individual will come to embody the dominant character traits of the particular regime.

每种政体都会催化,一种非常独特的个体，而此个体将会回过来,体现政体的显性特征。

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