At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.

在希斯的案例中，争论的焦点是，这个病态的社会，我们称之为西方文明，在其极端情况下，是否还能培养出这样一个人，他对西方文明的信心是如此之大，以至于他会自愿放弃人们认为好的东西，包括生命，来捍卫它。