The first man who， having fenced in a piece of land， said 'This is mine，' and found people naïve enough to believe him， that man was the true founder of civil society.

实验室是想象与现实相遇的地方，常常伴随着爆炸性的结果。

如果历史以故事的形式教授，它将永远不会被遗忘。

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.

当老人们种下他们知道自己永远不会坐在其下的树时，社会就会变得伟大。