That passage is often taken to be, the beginning of chapter 15, the essence of Machiavelli and realism, a kind of Realpolitik, as it were.

第，15，章开头的这一段落，常被解读为，马奇亚维利与现实主义的精髓，一种现实政治，其实它就是。

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The Elder Brother is explaining that these angels will: Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal.

大哥解释说，这些天使将会：,在身体上投射光束，在心里未受污染的殿堂上投射光束，把它变回灵魂的本质，直到全部人都变成不朽的人。

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This seems to be, in many ways, the essence of his teaching.

从很多层面看来，这看似他讲学的精义所在。

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