Man is not the slave,
so much as he is the creator,
of circumstances;
and <by the exercise of his free will>,
he can direct his actions
<so that> their actions shall be
productive of good rather than evil.
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You will find it less easy (=hard) to uproot faults than choke them by gaining virtues. Do not think of your faults, still less of others... -
In this age of machinery, 在這個機器化的年代 when the man 當人類 is getting less and less important, 正在变得愈來愈不重要的時候 and the machine more and more... -
In the world, there is no creature {with which man has surrounded himself }{that seems so much like a product of civilization...