and so I trust that it's easily intelligible as I read it to you now.] In fact, however, we have given up the claim to find, in the past, any truth valid and intelligible for ourselves.

所以我相信现在我读的时候大家一定会更容易理解],事实上，我们已经放弃了从过去中寻找,对于自己来说靠得住的，可以理解的事实。

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