If both religion and reason are removed, all that remains is will and power, where the only law is the law of tooth and claw.

如果宗教和理性都被世人所摒弃,那么世间就只剩下了权力和欲望,而这世间唯一准则就只剩下了弱肉强食

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And you will find, as we will in the next few weeks, the Southern political power by the 1850s and 1860s is really no longer in Virginia, or even South Carolina, it's out in the Mississippi Valley.

在接下来的几周课中你们会发现,截至十九世纪五六十年代,弗吉尼亚,南卡罗来纳州和密西西比河谷,已经不存在南方政权力量了

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What turns out to be the practical fact is that he who has the power and the will to do what he wants will be able to do so, and he who has not will be forced to suffer whatever the powerful impose on him.

事实上只有有能力及意愿,去做某事的人,才能最终做成某事,而没有能力或意愿的人则会因之,而遭受不幸

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