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No society in which these liberties are not, on the whole, respected, is free, whatever may be its form of government. 总的看来，不管它的政府形式是什么样的，不尊重这些自由的社会没有一个是自由的。 To make any one answerable for doing evil to others, is the rule; to make him answerable for not preventing evil, is, comparatively speaking, the exception. 让一个人为他对于别人所干的坏事负责，这是一条法规；相对来说，让他为没有阻止别人干坏事负责，则是一种例外。 The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. 只有以我们自己的方式追求我们幸福的自由才配得上这样的名称，只要我们不试图剥夺其他人这样做的自由或者阻碍他们这样去做。 No wonder that philosophers looking at this pandemonium of self-assertion, self-justification, and social and political fantasy, view it as a reaction against the Age of Reason. 难怪观察这种自作主张、自我辩白的吵闹局面以及社会和政治幻想的哲学家们把它看做是对理性时代的反应。 So that the very expression of alien mythology, incompatible with ones own vision of fact or truth, works to the corruption of that vision. To be obliged to confess, teach, or acclaim falsehood is always felt as an insult exceeding even ridicule and abuse. 于是，不符合他所信仰的“事实”或“真理”的异国神话就会危及他的信仰，是对个性的背叛。被迫承认、宣传或赞同错误的东西永远被看作是比奚落和侮辱更为严重的人身侵犯。 It does not use chord structure where a single melodic line is better, and in this sense it is akin to abstract art which reduces lines to a minimum. 只要一个旋律线谱更好，就绝不用和弦结构。在这个意文上讲，它类似于抽象艺术，把谱线减少到最小量。 Those who are sympathetic to both composed music and jazz claim that jazz must become a larger form of composition and be written down in a prevailing form as art ballet, opera, symphony, and musical comedy. 那些喜欢创作音禾和爵士乐的人称，爵士乐应该成力一种更为广泛的作曲形式，像芭蕾、歌剧、交响乐和音乐喜剧一样，以一种流行的形式把它谱写下来 。 Viewing the tradition of jazz in perspective, one must ask: Had the American Negro been given opportunity for musical education before 1865, would jazz be with us today? 回顾爵士乐传统，人们一定会同：假如1865年前美国黑人给予了接受音乐教育的机会，我们今天还有爵士乐吗？ The life story of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditi