내용 정리

단어

wretched : 비참한
abide : 견디다, 머무르다
endow : 부여받다
pernicious : 치명적인, 유해한

문장

The feeling is one born of a too easy satisfaction of
natural needs

born of a : ~에서 비롯된

So much for the mood.

So much for : ~에 대해서는 그쯤 하기로 하고

Nor is the
fact that all things pass in itself any ground for
pessimism.

A = the fact that all things pass
Nor is A in itself any ground for pessimism.

haunted by ghosts from a dead world and not yet
at home in its own, its predicament is not unlike the
predicament of the adolescent who has not yet
learned to orient himself without reference to the
mythology amid which his childhood was passed.

predicament : 곤경
amid : 가운데
at home + in + its own : 자기 세계에 익숙치 않다

Man depends upon cooperation, and has been provided
by nature, somewhat inadequately, it is true, with
the instinctive apparatus out of which the
friendliness required for cooperation can spring.

God and Man and Nature had all
somehow dwindled in the course of the intervening
centuries, not because the realistic creed of
modern art led us to seek out mean people, but
because this meanness of human life was somehow
thrust upon us by the operation of that same
process which led to the development of realistic
theories of art by which our vision could be
justified:

What are we to think if, as Solomon maintains,
they are succeeded by things exactly like themselves?

솔로몬이 주장하는 바와 같이, 그들이 자신들과 정확히 같은 것들로 대체된다면 우리는 어떻게 생각해야 할까?

The habit of looking to the future and
thinking that the whole meaning of
the present lies in what it will bring
forth is a pernicious one