16岁的塞丽娜•密斯特里说：“我现在晚上出去玩再也不觉得脚疼了，因为我知道事先要做哪些练习。”
"I no longer feel pain on a night out because I know what exercises to do beforehand," said 16-year-old Celina Mystery.
斯密和边沁认为，殖民地并不划算，康德和孔多塞则相信，它们还很不公正。
Colonies, as Smith and Bentham argued, are not cost-effective - and, as Kant and DE Condorcet believed, they are also unjust.
相比伏尔泰、孔多塞和笛卡尔这些利用理性去直面迷信和封建主义的法国启蒙思想者们，海峡对面的思想家，如布鲁克斯在书中所提及的伯克、休谟以及亚当·斯密，则认为信任理性是不明智的行为。
While Voltaire, Condorcet and Descartes used reason to confront superstition and feudalism, thinkers across the Channel – Brooks cites Burke, Hume and Adam Smith – thought it unwise to trust reason.
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