Whether or not they buy the reasoning behind it, many readers will think Mr Wolfe's call for active government is now merely pushing at an open door. 不管人們是否認同此書的推論,我相信,許多讀者將會認為烏爾夫對強政府的籲求如今實現起來簡直不費吹灰之力。
If the worst is avoided, the healthy popular hostility to a strong state that normally pervades democracies should reassert itself. 如果能夠避免這次危機,對盛行於民主國家的強政府理念懷有有益的普遍敵意應予以重申。