When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

  • -- Gerrit Smith 赫里特·史密斯

当一个好人投身于奴隶制的倡导时,他必须至少在一段时间内,在他的新思想、学说和推理模式中,感到自己除了在家里之外,什么地方都是自在的。

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The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.

天才们的表达方式就像他们的灵魂一样各不相同,我们不可能说他们中的一些人的绘画和色彩比另一些人好或差。

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.

如果伪造者和罪犯被世俗权力处死,那么就有更多的理由将一个被判异端的人逐出教会,甚至处死。

To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.

把一切事物和事物的原则都看成是不固定的模式或风尚,已越来越成为现代思想的倾向。

It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.

如果你把一幅画涂成红色,如果你把它涂成黑色,会发生什么?

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

自由意味着你可以自由地选择自己的生活。任何不这样做的,都是一种奴役。

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

和你在一起和不在你在一起是我衡量时间的唯一方法。

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

我们所有的推理最终都屈服于感觉。

Slavery discourages arts and manufactures.

奴隶制阻碍了艺术和制造业的发展。