Every society no matter of what kind requires a kind of faith in its ruling principles in its fundamental beliefs. But belief seems to be threatened from at least two sources.

每一个社会，无论其型态为何,都需要在其统治原则及基本信念中,加入些信仰，但是信念,似乎受到至少两项来源的威胁。

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No matter what its constitution was, no matter how these differed from one another, the idea was that the state has to make good men and that for a city to be good, the men must be good.

不论宪法体制如何,不论世间千变万化,其主旨始终围绕着,政府必须培育良民,而只有公民优秀,才能让城市更加美好

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