He seems to have known something about the modern economic theory of society long before modern economics was even developed.

而且是公开的驳斥,他似乎已知现代社会的经济原理,且是在现代经济学开始发展之前。

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The modern state, as we have come to understand it, is based upon the separation of civil society from governing authority.

我们所了解的现代国家，是根据,区隔公民社会与统治当局的角度来看。

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It was a society that eventually developed a disdain for what they perceived as the corruptions of modern commercialism.

南方社会,对他们认为的腐败的现代重商主义,持有一种相当鄙夷的态度

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