过去是一面镜子,但我们往往只看到自己想看的东西。
The past is a mirror, but we often see only what we want to see.
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.
我们都是潜在的化石,仍然携带着我们过去的痕迹。