In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.

  • -- James Henry Breasted 詹姆斯·亨利

无论如何,就我们对宇宙的知识所承载的意义而言,文明的出现首次代表着进化所达到的生命进程的最高提升。

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History is hard to know...but...it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time - and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.

历史很难知道,但是……似乎完全有理由认为,整整一代人的精力会时不时地在很长一段美好的闪光中迸发出来,原因是当时没有人真正理解的——回想起来,这些原因从来没有解释过究竟发生了什么。

After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often.

喝完茶,又开始画画了——黄昏时分,一棵大杨树下起了暴风雨。除了今晚的绘画课,我时常去附近的一个村庄打保龄球,但不是经常去。