is simply accidental--they happened to develop this technique

我认为是很偶然地发明了这种技术
which employed the weapons and defensive armor that they had

这种结合了他们当时所拥有的攻防战具的阵法
and then because they had those things,

正因为他们有了这种阵法
and because this ethos was present,

以及坚定不移的民族精神
it was possible to put together this fighting unit which was the phalanx

才造就了方阵这种齐心协力的战斗方式
which depended so enormously heavily upon the commitment to the commonality,

而这其中所倚仗的信念就是天下为公
to the common cause that was characteristic of the polis.

即为公共利益服务这也就是城邦的特点
Now, every state of every kind, every people,

我们知道不论哪个国家哪个民族
and every tribe has some degree of this kind of commitment to

或者部落中都会存在某种程度的集体责任感
one another or else they wouldn't exist as a unit.

否则他们是不可能以集体形式存在的
But there are really very sharp differences of degree

但是说到集体责任感对人民的影响力
in terms of how powerfully this commitment really affects people.

不同国家之间的差别就很悬殊了