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Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

  • -- G. K. Chesterton 特顿

残忍也许是罪恶中最坏的孩子。智力上的残酷当然是最残酷的一种。

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Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

伟大的思想使别人变得伟大。他们的优越性是要利用的，不是要把群众变成知识分子的附庸，不是要在他们之上建立一种精神上的专制，而是要把他们从昏睡中唤醒，帮助他们自己作出判断。

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The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

这场冲突的过程尚不清楚，但其结果是肯定的。自由与恐惧，正义与残忍，一直处于战争状态，我们知道上帝在它们之间并不是中立的。

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The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.

种族的智力进化包括这种关联的数量、精细程度、复杂性、持久性和形成速度的增加。

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Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

无知的善良可能产生残酷的后果;但是，对它生气，好像它是直接的残忍，将是无知的无情。

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