美文欣赏：Knowledge and Virtue知识与美德(下)_人生感悟经典美文欣赏

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Knowledge and Virtue 知识和美德（下）

Taken by themselves, they do but seem to be what they are not;they look like virtue at a distance, but they are detected by close observers, and in the long run;and hence it is that they are popularly accused of pretense and hypocrisy, not, I repeat, from their own fault, but because their profeors and their admirers persist in taking them for what they are not, and are officious in arrogating for them a praise to which they have no claim.就其本身而言，它们似乎已远非其本来面目，它们似乎一远看的美德，经久久细察方可探知。因此它们受到广泛的责难，指责其虚饰与伪善。我要强调，这绝非是因为其自身有什么过错，而是因为教授们和赞美者们一味地把它们弄得面目全非，并且还要殷勤地献上其本身并不希冀的赞颂。

Quarry the granite rock with razors, or moor the veel with a thread of silk, then may you hope with such keen and delicate instruments as human knowledge and human reason to contend against those giants, the paion and the pride of man.如若用剃刀就可以开采出花岗岩，用丝线即能系泊位船只，那么，也许你才能希望用人的知识和理性这样美妙而优雅的东西去与人类的情感与高傲那样的庞然大物进行抗争。