Machiavelli's state itself has universalist ambitions, in many ways, much like its Christian and Roman predecessors.

马奇亚维利的国家本身,也有普遍性的野心，从很多层面看来,很像其基督与罗马帝国的前辈。

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So the union of a universalist religion, with a monarch such as the Roman Empire, who ruled a vast empire, could nonetheless have put an end to any prospect of freedom as in other civilizations.

所以说,若是由信普救说者教会,与罗马帝国为代表的君主政体结盟,便会断送,其他文明中存在的自由前景

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