And so this raises the question, and so, as Smith puts it, "When our passive feelings are almost always so sordid and so selfish, how comes it that our active principles should often be so generous and so noble?"
这就提出了问题， 随后，斯密提出这样的疑问， “我们的消极情绪总是 如此利欲熏心，自私卑鄙， 我们的行为又怎么可能 时常很无私和高尚呢？”