The principle of monism had just introduced itself in England around the mid-1640s, around, it's been argued, the time that Milton's writing Areopagitica, and it met with all sorts of opposition.

一元论原理在17世纪40年代中期,弥尔顿写作《论出版自由》的时候,刚刚传到英格兰，即遭到各种反对。

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