He embraces the heterodox idea of monism, sometimes called animist materialism or vitalism, which is essentially a denial of any distinction between the body and the soul.

他赞同一元论的异端观点，一元论也叫做万物有灵论或者生机论,强调肉体和灵魂没有界限。

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The only thing that matters is the salvation of the incorporeal, the bodiless soul, but Milton is so unorthodox, or at least heterodox, in his insistence on the importance of the body in this poem.

基督教强调只有非物质的非肉体的心灵的救赎，才是重要的，但弥尔顿是如此异端，至少不正统，在诗中一直强调肉体的重要性。

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Individuals of heterodox belief but whose own views may stimulate others to question and think for themselves, all to the good, Milton, John Locke, people like Voltaire argued something like this.

如苏格拉底持非正统信念的个体,他们的观点,可能激励其它人反省,及内思，所有的好人，米尔顿，洛克及像伏尔泰等人,都做过类似的申辩。

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