Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.

-- G. Stanley Hall 斯坦利·霍尔

文明对身体的要求是如此之高，以至于有些人把它称为一种疾病，尽管艺术能让弱小的身体活到更大的平均年龄，也能更好地保护我们免受传染病和细菌性疾病的侵害。

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Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.

因此，私刑法在遥远的西方占据主导地位，直到文明传播到各个地区，法律的有序进程取而代之。紧急情况不再存在，私刑逐渐从西方消失。

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Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?

这是一种古老的疾病吗?如果是，是哪一种?如果它是新的，这说明了医学知识的状况如何?在任何情况下，医生如何理解它?

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Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

任何因果关系不明、治疗无效的重要疾病，往往意义重大。

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Education is the transmission of civilization.

教育是文明的传播。

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