One way of thinking about the metaphor of city and soul together is to think of it as a particular kind of causal hypothesis, about the formation of both individual character and political institutions.

思考城市与灵魂结合的方法,是将其想象成,是一种特别类型的,因果假说，关于形塑,个人性格与政治制度。

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What about Mill's attempt to account for the especially weighty character of individual rights and justice in chapter five of Utilitarianism.

那么穆勒在《功利主义》,第五章中提到的,个人权利和公正重要性的解释，又是否成立呢。

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Every regime will produce a distinctive kind of individual, and this individual will come to embody the dominant character traits of the particular regime.

每种政体都会催化,一种非常独特的个体，而此个体将会回过来,体现政体的显性特征。

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More specifically, what does it mean to say that an individual can be seen ? as magnified in his or her country, or that one's country is simply the collective expression of certain individual traits of character?

更确切地说，如果我们提到一个人,可以被视为是其国家的放大镜,那意谓着什么，或是某人的国家,就是特定,个人特征的集体呈现？

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