Back to Methuselah (A Metabiological Pentateuch), by George Bernard Shaw consists of a preface (An Infidel Half Century) and a series of five plays: In the Beginning: B.C. 4004 (In the Garden of Eden), The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas: Present Day, The Thing Happens: A.D. 2170, Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman: A.D. 3000, and As Far as Thought Can Reach: A.D. 31,920.
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说实在话，人类不可能从外部通过学校教师或别的教师而得到解救，
他们只懂得摧残人，奴役人。
In truth, mankind cannot be saved from without,
by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters:
it can only be lamed and enslaved by them.
据说，你若给猫洗澡，以后它就再也不会自己洗了。
It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again wash itself.
这个说法或许有理，或许没有理。
但有一点可以肯定的是：
如果你教人家学什么，人家永远也学不会；
This may or may not be true:
what is certain is that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it;
假如你帮人家治好了某种病，下次再发病，人家自己就无能为力了。
and if you cure him of a disease
he will be unable to cure himself the next time it attacks him.
因此，你如果想让猫干净，你就朝它泼一桶泥浆，
它会马上不顾一切地将之舔掉，
最后它会变得比原来还要干净。
Therefore, if you want to see a cat clean,
you throw a bucket of mud over it,
when it will immediately take extraordinary pains to lick the mud off,
and finally be cleaner... (查看原文)
还没人写过短评呢