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The battle that will decide the future of the English is going on all round us. At this time of writing, we in England are in the middle of it.
決定英國人的未來的戰斗正在我們周圍進行著。就在本人撰寫本文的時候，我們英國人正處于激戰之中。
I must add that while 'Englishness' can still fight on, 'Admass' could be winning.
本人還要補充說明的是，盡管英國人特性目前尚能在戰斗中堅持下去，但最終取勝的可能還是商業廣告推銷。
There are various reasons why this may be happening. To begin with, not all the English hold fast to 'Englishness'.
之所以會出現這種結果，其原因是多種多樣的。
Some important and influential men carefully train themselves out of it-politicians, academics, bureaucrats, ambitious financiers and industrialists, can be found among these men-and a horde of others, shallow and foolish, wander away from it, shrugging off their inheritance.
首先，并不是每一個英國人都牢固地保持著英國人特性。一些有權勢有影響的人物正處心積慮地設法使自己擺脫它--這些人中有政客、有文人、有官僚、有野心勃勃的金融家和企業家一而另外還有一大群淺薄愚魯的人也丟掉了它.隨隨便便地拋棄了自己的傳統。
Englishness is not as strong as it was even thirty years ago.
英國人特性的影響力連三十年前也比不上了。
It needs to be nourished by a sense of the dignity and possible destiny of mankind.
它需要用人們對于人類的尊嚴和命運的認識來培育和加強。
It must have some moral capital to draw upon, and soon it may be asking for an overdraft.
它必須擁有一些可以支取的道德資本，而且不久以后就有可能要求透支。
The Zeitgeist seems to be working for 'Admass'.
"時代精神"似乎在為商業廣告推銷推波助瀾，
So does most of what we read and what we hear.
我們所讀到和聽到的東西，一多半都是如此。
Even our inflation, which keeps everybody nudging everybody for more money, is often seen not as a warning, not as an enemy of the genuine good life, but as a proof that we need more and not less 'Admass'.
甚至連那使得大家為求多賺錢而你爭我奪的通貨膨脹，也往往不被視為一種危險的訊號，不被視為真正的美好生活的敵人，而往往倒是被視為我們需要更多而不是更少的商業廣告推銷的證明。
