In some such insidious form there is at present a strong tendency to this narrow theory of life, and to the pinched and hidebound type of human character which it patronizes.

• 在类此的狡诈形式之下，目前对于这种狭窄的人生论以及它所奖助的那类捏瘦和抽紧了的人类性格颇有一种强烈的趋向。