On this scale of a country's level of development, England was half a century behind Germany, the first European country to produce genuine porcelain, and a full thousand years behind the China which Defoe so disparaged.
這個文明國家發展指數，較歐洲第一個製造真瓷的德國晚了半世紀，而比起那個不值一提的中國，足足落後千年以上。