Empowerment of the individual was the idea in 1857, and after a century and a half of travail and misadventure among human societies, there is no better idea left standing.

• “权力归于个人”，这就是1857年人们所秉持的信念，而人类社会经历了一个半世纪的阵痛与种种劫难，并无更好的理念最终存留下来。