因此，人们联合成立共和国、置身于政府之下的伟大和主要目的是保护他们的财产。
Society can and does execute its own mandates， and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right， or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle， it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression， since， though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties， it leaves fewer means of escape， penetrating much more deeply into the details of life， and enslaving the soul itself.
The novel is a totalizing form; it tries to encompass all of human experience.
真相总是比小说更离奇。