Let's look at the show of hands? All right so this is the majority here. Good thing physics doesn't work on the rule of the majority otherwise we'd be in big trouble.

不可逆呢？请举手，好的,大多数人这么认为,真理并不掌握在多数人手里,否则我们就会有大麻烦了。

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Given the very different route that Prussia, Austria, Russia, Sweden and France went with a centralization of absolute rule, why did it work out so differently for England/Britain and the Netherlands?

在选择政体时,当普鲁士,奥地利,俄国,瑞典,法国,都伴随着中央集权走上绝对主义国家的道路,为什么英国和荷兰会如此与众不同呢

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