北方精神强调的是自由和个性，而南方精神则倾向于大庄园，它支持有觉悟的上层阶级统治忧郁、臣服的民众。

The northern spirit was free and individualistic; the southern made for great estates and a conscious gentility ruling over a dusky subject multitude.

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它要做的就是创造一个全新的统治阶级。

What it will do is create a whole new ruling class.

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过去，统治阶级有财富、权力和势力是显而易见的，而下层阶级却没有。

It used to be clear that the ruling classes had the wealth, authority and power while those underneath did not.

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Justice consists of the rules, that is to say, that are made by and for the benefits of the ruling class.

正义由规则组成，也就是说，由统治阶级所订定,且对其有利。

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It is enough for him he says if each class shares in some aspect of the governing power.

对他而言,只要每个阶级多少分享到一些统治权力,那即也足够。

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What they cared about-- because the Roman Republic by this time was basically a bunch of very important households, wealthy men and their households, and they were the members of the Senate, they were the knight class, they were the people who ran Rome.

他们在乎的是。。。因为当时的罗马共和国,实际上就是一群举足轻重的家户，富有男子及其家户所组成，他们是元老院成员，是骑士阶级，罗马的统治者。

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