God created a good world, But humans in the exercise of their moral autonomy, They have the power to corrupt the good.

上帝创作了一个美好的世界，但人类掌控自己的道德，他们有能力腐蚀美好事物。

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True godliness means imitation of God, the exercise of one's power In a manner that is godlike, good, life-affirming and so on.

真正的神性是效仿上帝，施展权力,用与上帝相仿的善良的方式。

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A writer like Mary Astell can employ Milton's revolutionary rhetoric to advance a cause to which John Milton himself would of course ; have had difficulty subscribing; a dead Milton could exercise a social power that had nothing whatsoever to do with the living Milton's own social views.

一个像玛丽·阿斯苔这样的作者可以用弥尔顿的革命性语言,来推动一项事业，一项约翰·弥尔顿本人当然很难,赞同的事业;,死去的弥尔顿竟然能够操纵与生前弥尔顿的社会观点,毫无关系的社会力量。

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