The greater stability, the fixity of personal position, which this state of society afforded, in comparison with the Asiatic polity to which it economically corresponded, was one main reason why it was also found more favourable to improvement.

• 这种社会状况同经济上与 之相对应的亚洲政体相比，使个人地位较为安稳固定，而这正是它有利于进步的一个主要原因。