And in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries this progression was viewed as an advance, which is not very surprising because the whole theory was put forward by scholars who were basically western monotheists.

在十八十九世纪，这个演变,被认为是一种进步，这并不奇怪,因为整个理论基本上都是由,西方一神论者提出的。

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I was very young then and it is not surprising that I felt as I did.

我当时很年轻，所以毫无意外的是,我当然也自觉如此。

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