The principle of monism had just introduced itself in England around the mid-1640s, around, it's been argued, the time that Milton's writing Areopagitica, and it met with all sorts of opposition.

一元论原理在17世纪40年代中期,弥尔顿写作《论出版自由》的时候,刚刚传到英格兰，即遭到各种反对。

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There can therefore, be no notion of a supreme divine will, an absolute or sovereign divine will. The will of any one god ultimately can be countered by the decrees of the primordial realm and the will of all the gods can be thwarted by the decrees of the primordial realm.

世上将不会再有至高的神谕，任何一个神谕最终将会被,这个原始领域的法令所驳回,所有的神谕都会遭到反对。

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