According to this view, man is not merely the measure of all things as the Greek Sophist Protagoras had radically proclaimed in the fifth century.

根据这种观点,人不仅仅是衡量一切事物的标准,这是古希腊诡辩学家普罗塔哥拉,在公元五世纪提出的

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First of all, it's worth remembering there are a lot of clear, undeniable similarities of all kinds, things you can measure, between South and North in the 40 years before the Civil War.

首先,值得记住的是有很多明显的,不可否认的共同点,各种各样的共同点,你在对比,内战发生前四十年里的南北双方时就能发现

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