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.
要是你们能够洞察时间所播的种子,知道哪一颗会长成,哪一颗不会长成,那么请对我说吧;我既不乞讨你们的恩遇,也不惧怕你们的憎恨。