Here is unfolded I before me the spirit of Egypt, Greece, and Rome, as expressed in their art.

埃及、希腊和罗马精神在我面前展开，正如他们艺术所表达那。

Christianity finds sickness necessary, just as the Greek spirit had need of a superabundance of health—the actual ulterior purpose of the whole system of salvation of the church is to make people ill.

基督教发现疾病是， 就像希腊精神需极度健康一——教会整个救恩体系实际不可目是让生病。

Unconsciously he defines for me the lines of a fresh school, a school that is to have in it all the passion of the romantic spirit, all the perfection of the spirit that is Greek.

不知不觉中，他为我勾勒出一个全新流派轮廓，一个充满浪漫精神热情与希腊精神完美结合流派。

This characteristic of being " at his ease in Zion" is found also in Chinese sages, and is, as a rule, absent from the sages produced by Christian civilizations, except when, like Goethe, they have deeply imbibed the spirit of Hellenism.

这种“安于锡安”特征在中国圣贤身上也有，而基督教文明产生圣贤一般是没有，除非他们像歌德那深深地吸收了希腊精神。