If I'm proud of knowing that in another culture if I belch after dinner it's a compliment to the cook, right, and if I'm proud of knowing that without drawing any conclusions from it, that's sort of the equivalent of historicism.

我知道在另一种文化中,吃饭后打嗝是表示饭菜好吃，我虽然知道但并不从中作出任何结论，这就是历史相对论的表现。

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The ideal audience for the book," he says "should be the preachers, the gentry, the lawyers, men of affairs, who drawing such water as they find from the book can use it," he says, "to sprinkle the same both from the pulpit and from their conversation upon the people."

他还说，像传教士，贵族，律师，当政者,这样的人就更应该读这本书，因为他们有能力,把从书中汲取的思想认识，通过礼拜或与他人的交谈,有效地传播出去“

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Now, we get to draw some lessons out of this thing, so everybody who's feeling a little bit shell shocked from having been doing algebra and calculus and drawing pictures and feeling like they've been cheated into taking a class that looks far too much like economics, calm down we're going to actually talk right now.

下面我们从中总结点经验出来,那些因为代数和微积分计算还有绘图,而感到十分不爽的同学,你们是不是感觉被我忽悠了,才会选这门一点都不像经济学的课啊,稍安勿躁,我们马上切入正题

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