The inexorable progress of the Enlightenment, though it has sent devils packing and committed nymphs and sprites to the realms of silliness, has never managed to stamp out angels.

尽管启蒙运动的不可抵挡的进程已经让恶魔们滚蛋，也让小仙女和精灵们被认为是可笑的幻想，但天使却从未淡出。

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If the strengths of beliefs were a hallmark of knowledge, we should have to rank some tales about demons, angels, devils, and of heaven and hell as knowledge.

如果信仰的强度是知识的标志，我们就不得不不把关于神灵、天使、魔鬼和天堂、地狱的某些故事看作知识。

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Sometimes devils may disguise themselves as angels.

有时候，恶魔可能将自己打扮成天使。

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Not long after embarking upon the subject of God and melancholy, for example, Mr. Burton veers into "A Digression of the Nature of Spirits, Bad Angels, or Devils, " which leads into an elaborate taxonomy of evil creatures, including the question of whether some devils "have excrements" or "feel pain if they are hurt, " and whether there can be both good and bad devils.

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The inexorable progress of the Enlightenment, though it has sent devils packing and committed nymphs and sprites to the realms of silliness, has never managed to stamp out angels.

ECONOMIST: Angels