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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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The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

第一次反抗是反对神学的最高暴政，反对上帝的幻影。只要我们在天上有一个主人，我们在地上就会是奴隶。

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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

奇迹是用小写字母复述同一个故事，而这个故事是用世界各地的文字写成的，只是字体太大，有些人看不见。

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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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Every day, we've got to do something physical. It's mind, body and spirit.

每天，我们都要做一些身体锻炼。它是心灵，身体和精神。

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We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

我们往往把音乐误认为是实物。

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