His discovery of Mencken using words as weapons in a political sense is a very powerful moment for him in his intellectual development.

门肯在政治领域以唇当剑,的艺术让他受益非浅,这种主动进取。

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All right. So you can already begin to see a development in intellectual history that perhaps opens the way to a certain skepticism.

好，所以大家已经开始看到,人类思想史的一个发展,它很可能为某种怀疑主义开辟了道路。

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