Orders shouted in a strange guttural tongue that resounded 订单喊在一个陌生的喉音舌头响彻

along the walls of the houses, which seemed dead and deserted, 沿着房屋的墙壁，似乎死了，冷清，

while, behind the closed shutters, eyes watched the conquerors, 同时，封闭的百叶窗后面，眼睛注视着征服者，

who, by right of war, were now masters of the city and of the lives 谁，战争的权利，是现在生活的城市的主人

and fortunes of its people. 和它的人民的命运。

   

In their darkened ruins the inhabitants have given way to the same 在黑暗的废墟中的居民已经让位给同

feeling of panic which is aroused by natural cataclysms, those 恐慌的感觉，这是由自然灾难引起，这些

devastating upheavals of the Earth, against which wisdom and 地球毁灭性的动荡，对其中的智慧和

strength alike are of no avail. 实力都没有用武之地。

   

Though the same feeling is experienced wherever the established 虽然同样的感觉是经验丰富的地方建立

order of things is upset, when security ceases to exist, when all that 订单的事情生气，当安全不再存在的时候，所有的

was previously protected by the laws of man and nature is suddenly 以前由人的法律保护，自然是忽

placed at the mercy of brutal, unreasoning force. 放置在残酷的，理智的力量摆布。

   

The earthquake, burying a whole people beneath the ruins of their 这次地震，掩埋整个人的废墟之下的

houses, the river in spate, sweeping away the bodies of drowned 房子，在接连发生的河道，一扫淹死的尸体

peasants, together with the carcasses of cattle and rafters torn from 农民，加上牛从撕裂的尸体和椽子

roofs, and the victorious army slaughtering all who resist, making 屋顶和胜利之师屠宰所有谁抵制，使得

prisoners of the rest, looting by right of the sword, and thanking their 其余的战俘，被刀右抢，并感谢他们

god to the sound of cannon. 神炮声。

   

All these are terrifying scourges which undermine all our belief in 所有这些都是可怕的祸害这有损于我们所有的信念

eternal justice and all the trust we have been taught to place in divine 永恒的正义，我们都被教导在神给的信任

protection and human reason. 保护和人类理性。