Most importantly you might say what distinguishes the gentleman as a class from the philosophers is a certain kind of knowledge or practical intelligence.

你可能会说，最重要,能区别出,绅士阶级与哲学家的地方,是一种特定的知识,或实际智能。

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The gentleman may lack the speculative intelligence of a Socrates but he will possess that quality of practical rationality of practical judgment necessary for the administration of affairs.

绅士可能缺少,像苏格拉底般的思索智慧,但他却拥有,实际理性的本质,拥有行政事务所需的,实际判断力。

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