The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centers of culture.
The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.
文学的美在于它能够跨越时间和空间连接我们。
过去不是为了生活其中；它是一个结论的源泉，我们从中汲取以行动。