因此,这一代人被剥夺了对自由社会运作至关重要的一个要素 - 在没有良好证据相反的情况下,公共生活中的男人通常是体面,光荣和忠诚的能力。
(And so that generation was deprived of the one element that is essential to the operation of a free society-the ability to assume, in the absence of good proof to the contrary, that men in public life are generally decent, honorable, and loyal.)