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We must educate! We must educate! or we must perish by our own prosperity.
我們必須接受教育！我們必須接受教育！如果我們僅憑自己的幸運和機緣的話，必定自取滅亡。
If we do not, short will be our race from the cradle to the grave.
倘若我們不接受教育，那么我們種族從搖籃到墳墓只是一瞬間的事情。
If, in our haste to be rich and mighty, we outrun our literary and religious institutions, they will never overtake us;
假若我們急于想成為富人和大人物，超過了文學和宗教上的慣例和制度，那么這些夢想從來都不會突然降臨到我們頭上。
or only come up after the battle of liberty is fought and lost, as spoils to grace the victory,
只有在經過為自由而戰失敗后，在勝利的恩澤遭到損毀的同時，
and as resources of inexorable despotism for the perpetuity of our bondage.
無情的專制統治為了永遠奴役我們而訴諸于武力。
But what will become of the West if her prosperity rushes up to such a majesty of power,
但是，當那些對形成廣袤世界的心智、良知和核心來說必要的重要制度徘徊時，
while those great institutions linger which are necessary to form the mind, and the conscience, and the heart of the vast world?
如果西方的繁榮促使形成這樣一個強大勢力的話，那么結果會怎樣呢？
It must not be permitted.
必然是不被允許的。
And yet what is done must be done quickly;
然而，要做的事情必須盡快做。
for population will not wait, and commerce will not cast anchor, and manufactures will not shut off the steam, nor shut down the gate,
因為人們不會慢慢等待，商業也不會原地擱淺，制造業既不會關掉生產線，也不會關上大門，
and agriculture, pushed by millions of freemen on their fertile soil, will not withhold her corrupting abundance.
由數以百萬計自由民在他們肥沃的土地上耕作而得到推動和發展的農業，當然不會抑制它變得腐敗的豐饒。
And let no man at the East quiet himself, and dream of liberty, whatever may become of the West.
東方世界沒有人對自己的境遇感到滿意，夢想著自由，無論怎樣都變成西方人。
Our alliance of blood, and political institutions, and common interests, is such, that we can not stand aloof in the hour of her calamity, should it ever come.
我們血脈、政治制度和共同利益上的聯盟，確保我們在一旦出現災難之時不會獨木難支。
