1. 如果，一个国家能够结出这样的果实，并且听其尽快果熟蒂落的话，那麽它就爲建成更加完美、更加辉煌的国家铺平了道路。那是我想象到，却在任何地方都不曾看到的国家。
A State which bore this kind of fruit, and suffered it to drop off as fast as it ripened, would prepare the way for a still more perfect and glorious State, which also I have imagined, but not yet anywhere seen.