But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.

  • -- Herbert Read 赫伯特·里德

但是,只有通过细胞分裂的过程,才能使个体得到区别,使个体区别于母体,并独立于母体,从而获得文明的品质或文化。

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We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.

我们就像无知的牧羊人,生活在曾经繁荣过伟大文明的地方。牧羊人玩弄着浮出水面的碎片,对它们曾经是其中一部分的美丽结构一无所知。

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

越来越多的手段和越来越多的闲暇是人类的两大文明。