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This is one of the core conservative principles: epistemological modesty, or humility in the face of what we don’t know about a complex world, and a conviction that social change should be steady but cautious and incremental. [qh]
这是保守主义的核心原则之一:认识论上的谦虚，或者是面对我们对复杂世界所不了解时的谦逊，以及坚信社会变革应该是稳定的、谨慎的、渐进的。 [qh]
Down the centuries, conservatives have always stood against the arrogance of those who believe they have the ability to plan history:[qh]
几个世纪以来，保守派一直反对那些自认为有能力规划历史的人的傲慢: [qh]
the French revolutionaries who thought they could destroy a society and rebuild it from scratch, but who ended up with the guillotine; [qh]
法国革命者认为他们可以摧毁一个社会，然后从零开始重建，但最后却被送上了断头台; [qh]
the Western government planners who thought they could fine-tune an economy from the top, but who ended up with stagflation and sclerosis; [qh]
西方政府的规划者们认为他们可以从顶层对经济进行微调，但最终却以滞胀和僵化告终; [qh]
the European elites who thought they could unify their continent by administrative fiat and arrogate power to unelected technocrats in Brussels, but who ended up with a monetary crisis and populist backlash.[qh]
欧洲的精英们认为，他们可以通过行政命令将欧洲大陆统一起来，并在布鲁塞尔将权力交给未经选举的技术官僚，但最终却引发了货币危机和民粹主义反弹。 [qh]
If conservatives don’t think reason is strong enough to order a civilization, what human faculty do they trust enough to do the job?[qh]
如果保守派认为理性不够强大，不足以统治一个文明，那么他们相信什么样的人类才能胜任这项工作呢？[qh]
Here we have to resort to a classic 18th-century concept—the “sentiments.” [qh]
这里我们不得不求助于18世纪的一个经典概念——“情绪”。 [qh]
An early book of Burke’s was on aesthetics. [qh]
伯克早期的一本著作是关于美学的。 [qh]
When you look at a painting, you don’t have to rationally calculate its beauty or its power, the sadness or the joy it inspires. [qh]
当你看一幅画时，你不必理性地计算它的美或它的力量，它所激发的悲伤或喜悦。[qh]
Sentiments are automatic aesthetic and emotional judgments about things. [qh]
情感是对事物的自动审美和情感判断。 [qh]
They assign value. [qh]
它们分配价值。 [qh]
They tell you what is beautiful and what is ugly, what to want and what is worth wanting, where to go and what to aim for.[qh]
它们告诉你什么是美，什么是丑，想要什么，值得想要什么，去哪里，追求什么。 [qh]
Rationalists put a lot of faith in “I think therefore I am”—the autonomous individual deconstructing problems step by logical step. [qh]
理性主义者对“我思故我在”充满信心——这是一种独立的个体，它通过逻辑的步骤来解构问题。 [qh]
Conservatives put a lot of faith in the latent wisdom that is passed down by generations, cultures, families, and institutions, and that shows up as a set of quick and ready intuitions about what to do in any situation. [qh]
保守主义者对代代相传、文化传承、家庭传承和制度传承的潜在智慧充满信心，这些智慧表现为在任何情况下都能迅速而现成地做出判断。 [qh]
Brits don’t have to think about what to do at a crowded bus stop. [qh]
英国人在拥挤的公交车站不需要思考该做什么。 [qh]
They form a queue, guided by the cultural practices they have inherited.[qh]
他们在继承下来的文化习俗的指引下排成了一队。 [qh]
The most important sentiments are moral sentiments.[qh]
最重要的情感是道德情感。 [qh]
Conservatism certainly has an acute awareness of sin—selfishness, greed, lust. [qh]
保守主义当然对罪恶有着敏锐的意识——自私、贪婪、淫欲。 [qh]
But conservatives also believe that in the right circumstances, people are motivated by the positive moral emotions—especially sympathy and benevolence, but also admiration, patriotism, charity, and loyalty.[qh]
但保守派也相信，在适当的情况下，人们会被积极的道德情感所激励——尤其是同情和仁慈，但也有钦佩、爱国、慈善和忠诚。[qh]
