Some great decorum, some fetish of a government, some ephemeral trade, or war, or man, is cried up by half mankind and cried down by the other half, as if all depended on this particular up or down.

• 某个了不起的礼仪，某个政府的崇拜物，某个短暂的交易，某场战争或某人，会得到一半人的大力支持，同时遭到另一半人的激烈反对，似乎那件事或那个人的成败决定人类的命运。