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.

基督教发现疾病是必要的， 就像希腊精神需要极度健康一样——教会整个救恩体系的实际不可告人的目的是让人生病。

For him, order does not result from forgetting or ignoring the disorders that plague our existence; order is a necessary development, an improvement that may lead to the Greek ideal of spiritual elevation.

对他而言，秩序并非源于忘或忽略困扰我们生存的乱象；秩序是必然的发展，是可以引导人类走向希腊理想中的精神升华的进步。

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.

他不知不觉地为我定义了一所新的线条，一所将拥有浪漫精神的所有激情，希腊精神的所有完美。

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”的特征在中国圣贤身上也有，而基督教文明产生的圣贤一般是没有的，除非他们像歌德那样深深地吸收了希腊精神。