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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

  • -- Irving Babbitt 白璧德

今天，人文学科需要抵御物理科学的侵蚀，就像它们曾经需要抵御神学的侵蚀一样。

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We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.

我们需要自我，因为组成我们个人人文学科的化学过程的复杂性超过了我们大脑的处理能力。

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I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.

我认为那种认为科学和人文学科之间存在巨大鸿沟的看法是错误的。

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Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

在我看来，神学似乎是人类智慧代替了神的智慧。

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I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.

我读的是实体书，到目前为止，我已经避开了电子诱惑。

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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

我的神学，简单地说，是宇宙是口述的，而不是签署的。

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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.

我想，我们拥有共同的自然或地理遗产。

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