He and his wife Mary write back and forth about how evil slavery is.

他与他的妻子通过书信来往,表达对奴隶制的憎恶

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How can an all-powerful, good God allow so much evil to exist and even go unpunished?

怎么可能，一个万能的，善良的上帝会允许邪恶的存在，甚至不受到惩罚呢？

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This is simply another example of how moral goodness grows out of and even requires a context of moral evil. Machiavelli's advice to you is clear.

这只是道德良善怎样源自于而且甚至,需要一个道德败坏的情境的另一个例子,马基雅维利给你们的建议很清楚。

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