Freedom does permit isolation from society and an alienation of the individual at a high cost, both to the individual and society.

自由允许人与社会隔绝,人与人疏远,但是不管是对个人还是社会,代价都是巨大的

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But why did they permit him to carry on his practice of challenging the law and ? the authority of the law for as long as they did?

而是，为何他们一再容许他,挑战法律及法律权威,达这么长一段时间？

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The question, of course, is what scholars have disagreed about and continue to disagree about, because the evidence simply will not permit any confident answer, but I ought to just mention a few of the theories that have been tossed around, a few among many, many, many.

而这个问题,是学者曾经争论不休,而且至今也尚无定论的,因为以目前的证据,不能得到任何确切的答案,但我需要,就一小部分广为传播的理论做些说明,这些只是各种理论中的一小部分

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