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and the entire modern constitutional tradition.并使现代宪法制度得以发展 -
These ideas and institutions are the basis这些思想和制度是 -
for modern liberal thinking about politics,现代自由主义者对政治 -
the individual and society,个人和社会的认知基础 -
just as the confident view of science and technology这与极高的促进人性发展 -
has progressive forces improving the lot of humanity and加强人们对世界的了解 -
increasing man's capacity to understand and control the universe,和控制的科学技术 -
has been the most powerful form taken这些成熟完善的体制 -
by the Western elevation of reason.一同促成了西方文明理性的提升 -
In the last two centuries,近两个世纪以来 -
both these most characteristic elements西方文明这些 -
of Western civilization have in fact最具代表性的因素实际上