Up until this period, the early 1650s, Milton was a devoted contributor to the ideal Puritan notion of this government, and it was really the height of his political idealism.

直到这一时期，17世纪50年代早期，弥尔顿还忠诚,的拥护这一清教徒政府的理想化理念，这是他的政治理想主义的顶峰。

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How, in other words, can it be put to political purposes if there is this underlying, implicit centrism in this notion of reconciliation, harmonization, and balance?

也就是说,文学既然强调和谐和平衡,又怎么能用于政治目的呢？

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It actually, it's been shown, seems to foreshadow the political philosophy of Milton's much younger contemporary, John Locke -- the notion that nature demands that every human individual has just enough, is given just enough to be self-sufficient.

事实上这一论点似乎提前预兆了,比弥尔顿年轻许多的同代人，他们的政治哲学，约翰·洛克--他认为自然要求,每个自然人拥有足够自己使用的，每个人只得到足够自给的就够了。

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