Jacob Milgrom has argued that there's a kind of Archimedean principle at work here: every sin creates an impurity that encroaches upon the realm of holiness and displaces a certain amount of holiness.

雅各布·米尔格罗姆认为,这里存在着一种阿基米德原理：,每一种罪孽都会造成不洁,这种不洁逐渐蚕食神圣,慢慢取代神圣的位置。

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Every great moral philosopher has a strategy for helping us submit our passions to some kind of control, to some kind of supervening moral power.

每一位伟大的道德哲学家,都有其办法可以助我们,让激情得到某种控制，并进而产生某种道德的力量。

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