driven by the assumption, as he put it, that, quote:

在他的臆断下他写道
"no hint of enmity should ever be kept alive."

"连空气中的一丝仇恨都应该赶尽杀绝"
His Lost Cause, in the brevity of one essay,

他的"败局命定" 在一篇小文中
was a story of noble sacrifice by the South, and heroism,

是南方的伟大牺牲和英雄主义的故事
of a nostalgia for an older civilization

作为对于老一代文明的怀旧
that had been some kind of bulwark against modernism.

演变成为默默抵抗现代主义的堡垒
And in the end, as Catton put it,

在最后卡顿写道
the Confederate legend, the Lost Cause, he said, quote,

"邦联传奇败局命定
"saved us." I couldn't really take it anymore.

拯救了我们" 我实在是不能接受
At the very end of the essay Catton redeemed himself a bit.

在文章的最后卡顿做了一点自我救赎
He acknowledged that in 1965 the war had left, he said,

他承认在1965年战争将
the unfinished business of black equality as its deepest legacy, and that, quote

未竟的黑人平等问题是其最深刻的遗产