In Intellectual History

It appears to be one of those numerous crossings in intellectual history where what would seem to us, in retrospect, to be a fertile match, turns out not to be.

看来，这是理性史中许多交叉点中的一个，在我们看来，这样一种交叉理应成为颇具意义的竞赛，可是结果却并非如此。

According to the standard history of American philosophy, nowhere else in colonial America was "So much important attached to intellectual pursuits".

根据美国标准哲学史，在美国殖民时期，没有任何地方“如此重视智力追求”。

The present shift in intellectual capital in favor of the East has no precedent in world history.

在世界历史上，智力如此倾向于东方还是前所未有的事。