公平地说,人类社会也许可以说,世界上几乎所有的政体和民事机构,无论多么不完美,它们都是以相当大的智慧建立和延续的。
(In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.)