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.
我们不是从祖先那里继承森林,而是向子孙借用。
I'm just a kid from Syracuse trying to figure it all out.