So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

  • -- Walter Bagehot 沃尔特·巴格霍特

只要这个世界上有虔诚的信徒,他们总是希望惩罚意见,即使他们的判断告诉他们这是不明智的,他们的良心告诉他们这是错误的。

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Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

良心的每一个判断,无论是对的还是错的,是关于事物本身的邪恶还是道德上的冷漠,都是必须的,这样,违背良心的人总是有罪的。

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

他们看不见是什么,却将自己的急断,建立在似乎的事上。