It's a wonderfully compressed argument in which the Soul and the Heart make competing claims for Christianity and classical and literary wisdom.

这里压缩的争论很精彩,其中心和灵魂关于基督教义和,古典的文学的智慧提出相对立的主张。

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The argument is only making a much more specific claim.

它只是提出了一个更明确的主张

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