他们正试图策划一场革命,从定义上讲,这几乎产生了一种集体创伤感,违反了连贯和控制的任何外观。如果我们希望重新发现费城主要参与者的心理环境,那么我们需要放弃事后的全能知识,并在谈判未知的情况下捕捉他们的心态。
(They were trying to orchestrate a revolution, which almost by definition generated a sense of collective trauma that defied any semblance of coherence and control. If we wish to rediscover the psychological context of the major players in Philadelphia, we need to abandon our hindsight omniscience and capture their mentality as they negotiated the unknown.)