一方面，我们似乎都认同在一个自由的社会里公民可以获取他们想要的任何信息。

On the one hand, we tend to agree that people should be able to access whatever information they'd like in a free society.

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但是在一个自由的社会，和平违法的道德基础必须是出于个人自愿去承担后果，去法庭上辩护并且为法律的变更而争斗。

But in a free society the moral footing for peaceful lawbreaking must be an individual's readiness to take the consequences, argue in court and fight for a change in the law.

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达尔文派认为，最关紧要的是自由的社会允许人们通过努力提高自己的社会地位，当然前提是你如果愿意这样做，此即美国梦。

What actually matters, Darwinism suggests, is that a free society allows people to rise through the hierarchy by their own efforts: the American dream, if you like.

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So within a couple of generations people could move up from being the lowest slaves to two generations of being free Roman citizens.

所以几代以内,奴隶能从最低社会等级,上升两位，成为自由的罗马公民。

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And although you were a freedman, - which was lower in status than a free person-- - there were some privileges you couldn't have-- your children would be, if they were born after you'd been freed, would be free people, not freed.

虽然奴隶成为了自由人，自由人的社会地位低于自由民-,有一些权利无法享受-,自由人的孩子，如果是出生于奴隶被释放后的，则会成为自由民，而不是自由人。

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Hobbes derives the very power of the sovereign from the natural right of each individual to do as they like in the state of nature.

他认为君主的权力源自于,人民原本在自然社会中,能自由行使的个人权力。

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