so it is as crucial as ever to understand theory At the same time, we have the vantage point of, I suppose, what we can now call history.

因此去理解理论一直以来都是至关重要的,以此同时我想，我们处在，历史的有利位置。

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Second thing I want to look at is, suppose I compare that the one below it.

我要说的第二件事情是，假设我比较它下面的那个对象。

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That is true of all of human societies that we know anything about down to the earliest possible exception, I suppose; well, it depends what you think is earliest.

确实,在所有我们了解到的,人类社会中,我想"最早的"可能除外,当然,这取决于你是怎么理解"最早的"

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