The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.
消灭一个民族的第一步是抹去它的记忆。摧毁它的书籍,它的文化,它的历史。然后让某人写新书,制造新文化,发明新历史。不久之后,这个民族就会开始忘记它是什么以及它曾经是什么。
世界充满了迹象和奇迹,但我们视而不见地经过它们。
Writing is a way of preserving the truth.
对心灵的研究必须摆脱一切先入为主的观念。