"They had nothing else from fortune," he says, that "gave them the matter enabling them " to introduce any form they please."

他说：，“他们的时运不外乎机会，那，“提供他们物质,让他们能推行任何他们喜欢的形式“

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As one examines their actions and lives," he writes, "one does not see that they had anything else from fortune than the opportunity which gave them the matter enabling them " to introduce any form they please.

他写到：，“当一个人在检视其行为与生命时“,他们所见的时运,不外乎提供他们,物质的机会,让他们能推行,任何他们喜欢的形式。

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It's a critique of the idea of anything that has a center, one which is at the same time an enabling causal principle.

它是在评论任何事物都有一个中心的想法，与此同时存在一个任意的原理。

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