随着繁荣的经济打乱了神赐的中世纪社会阶级，世俗限制奢侈法律开始出现，控制消费习惯，并对社会流动性踩上了刹车。

As the booming economy upset the God-given medieval hierarchy, secular sumptuary laws, which regulated consumption habits, were a brake on social mobility.

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这也是将看待自杀看成是报复其敌人的一个世俗方面：如果其自杀在法庭被证明是强迫的，相关责任方将承担法律责任。

There is also a mundane aspect to viewing suicide as revenge on one's foes: if it is proven in court that the suicide was coerced, there will be legal repercussions for the parties deemed responsible.

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He is not his equal by nature and cannot be made so by human laws or human institutions.

他们天生就不平等,更不能通过世俗的法律与制度获取平等

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