To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.

  • -- Walter Horatio Pater 佩特

把一切事物和事物的原则都看成是不固定的模式或风尚,已越来越成为现代思想的倾向。

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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.

万物都是无常的,惟有属灵的信心能改变万物,使万物充满光明。我虽然像一个不信的人,被赶出我的家乡,却找不着一个像我这样有信心的人。

The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.

天才们的表达方式就像他们的灵魂一样各不相同,我们不可能说他们中的一些人的绘画和色彩比另一些人好或差。

Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency.

因此,现代科学一方面认为,自然,无论是有机的还是无机的,都在朝着一种秩序的状态努力,而人类的行为也受同一趋势的支配。

Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency.

人类不可能永远呆在那里。他注定要传播到新的地区,部分原因是他天生的迁徙倾向,部分原因是大自然的严峻紧迫性。