我的民族历经400年的奴隶制度后幸存了下来。

My people have survived 400 years of slavery.

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在这方面，它将类似于斯宾塞的《仙后》，或者，更为重要的，维吉尔的《埃涅阿斯记》——其他民族主义史诗。

In this respect, it would resemble Spenser's Faerie Queene, or perhaps, more importantly, Virgil's Aeneid—other nationalist epics.

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两个多世纪后，他关于民族国家的观点被奉为圭臬。但是这是为什么呢？

Over the last two centuries, his vision of the nation-state has become the norm. But why?

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A Christian civilization was deeply at the root of this cluster of ideas we call Manifest Destiny, as was a virulent kind of nationalism that boomed after the War of 1812 and through the 1820s into the 1830s.

基督教文明是我们所称的命运天定,及其相关思想的核心,它是一种有害的民族主义,在1812年战争后兴起,并流行于十九世纪二十年代和三十年代

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