Lesson one 1
Virtue is, indeed must be, self-centered
(para4) 正确的行动是,确实也必须是以自我为中心的
By right action, we mean it must help promote personal interest
The essentials are familiar: the poverty of the poor was the fault of the poor
And it was because it was product of their excessive fecundity…
(para5) 他的基本观点为人熟知:穷人的贫穷是他们咎由自取,贫穷是热门过度生育的结果 The poverty of the poor was caused by their having too many children
Poverty being caused in the bed meant that the rich were not responsible for either its creation or its amelioration
(para6) 贫穷源于过度生育意味着富人不应该为产生贫穷和解决贫穷承担责任 The rich were not to blame for the existence of poverty so they should not be asked to undertake the task of solving the problem
It is merely the working out of a law of nature and a law of God(para8) 这是自然规律和上帝的意志在起作用