71. No prudent person dared to act on the assumption that, when the continent was settled, one government could include the whole; and when the vast expense broke up, as seemed inevitable, into a collection of separate nations, only discord, antagonism, and wars could be expected.

　　72. If they were right in thinking that the next necessity in human progress was to lift the average person upon an intellectual and social level with the most favored, they stood at least three generations nearer than Europe to that goal.

　　73. Somehow he knows that if our huckstering civilization did not at every moment violate the eternal fitness of things, the poets song would have been given to the world, and the poet would have been cared for by the whole human brotherhood, as any man should be who does the duty that every man owes it.

　　74. The instinctive sense of the dishonor which money-purchase does to art is so strong that sometimes a man of letters who can pay his way otherwise refuses pay for his work, as Lord Byron did, for a while, from a noble pride, and as Count Tolstoy has tried to do, from a noble conscience.

　　75. Perhaps he believed that he could not criticize American foreign policy without endangering the support for civil rights that he had won from the federal government.

　　71、沒有一個謹慎的人能按如下的假設行事：當陸地確定以后，一個政府并不能包括全部;當這種巨大的開銷終于分裂為幾個民族時，這看起來是不可避免的，人們就只能等待著爭論，敵對和戰爭了。

　　72、如果他們認為人類進步的下一步必需是把普通人的智力水平和社會地位向著最受歡迎的方向提高的看法正確的話，他們至少要比歐洲超前三代接近那個目標。

　　73、他認識到如果不是我們的小貶文明每時每刻地破壞事實內部的和諧的話，詩人的詩歌就該已經奉獻給了世界，而詩人也該被全人類關懷著，每個為大家做事的人都該被如此對待。

　　74、金錢購買給藝術的本能恥辱感如此強烈，以致可有時文人可以獲得報酬卻拒絕為其作品給予的報酬，Lord Byron有時因為尊貴的自豪而這么做，而Count Tolstoy則出于貴族的良知而盡力這么做。

　　75、也許他認為他批評美國的外支政策就會使他從聯幫政府那里獲得的對人權和的支持受到威脅。

　　71. No prudent person dared to act on the assumption that, when the continent was settled, one government could include the whole; and when the vast expense broke up, as seemed inevitable, into a collection of separate nations, only discord, antagonism, and wars could be expected.

　　72. If they were right in thinking that the next necessity in human progress was to lift the average person upon an intellectual and social level with the most favored, they stood at least three generations nearer than Europe to that goal.

　　73. Somehow he knows that if our huckstering civilization did not at every moment violate the eternal fitness of things, the poets song would have been given to the world, and the poet would have been cared for by the whole human brotherhood, as any man should be who does the duty that every man owes it.

　　74. The instinctive sense of the dishonor which money-purchase does to art is so strong that sometimes a man of letters who can pay his way otherwise refuses pay for his work, as Lord Byron did, for a while, from a noble pride, and as Count Tolstoy has tried to do, from a noble conscience.

　　75. Perhaps he believed that he could not criticize American foreign policy without endangering the support for civil rights that he had won from the federal government.

　　71、沒有一個謹慎的人能按如下的假設行事：當陸地確定以后，一個政府并不能包括全部;當這種巨大的開銷終于分裂為幾個民族時，這看起來是不可避免的，人們就只能等待著爭論，敵對和戰爭了。

　　72、如果他們認為人類進步的下一步必需是把普通人的智力水平和社會地位向著最受歡迎的方向提高的看法正確的話，他們至少要比歐洲超前三代接近那個目標。

　　73、他認識到如果不是我們的小貶文明每時每刻地破壞事實內部的和諧的話，詩人的詩歌就該已經奉獻給了世界，而詩人也該被全人類關懷著，每個為大家做事的人都該被如此對待。

　　74、金錢購買給藝術的本能恥辱感如此強烈，以致可有時文人可以獲得報酬卻拒絕為其作品給予的報酬，Lord Byron有時因為尊貴的自豪而這么做，而Count Tolstoy則出于貴族的良知而盡力這么做。

　　75、也許他認為他批評美國的外支政策就會使他從聯幫政府那里獲得的對人權和的支持受到威脅。