808# 他们之间有一种心性上的相似，因此他们与来自本国的朋友结成亲密关系，而很少与其他人如此；他们也彼此相助，并喜爱真诚。他们爱自己的国家，并热心维护其荣耀；他们看待外邦人，就像有人从自己宫殿的屋顶上，通过望远镜观看城外的居民和游荡者一样。
他们本国的政治事务占据他们的心思，并掌握他们的内心；有时甚至到了这样的程度，以致使他们的灵离开那些较高判断力的研究，而人正是借这些研究获得较高的聪明。诚然，他们中那些青年时期在学院里专注于这类研究的人，会吸收这些东西；但它们经过时如同一时的现象。然而，他们的理性仍由这些东西变得活泼，并闪耀着光；他们凭这光形成美丽的意象，正如面向太阳的水晶棱镜形成彩虹，又把置于其前的平面染上明亮的色彩。
808# 他们还具有相似的性格，这使得他们与自己的同胞建立了亲密的友谊，但很少与其他人建立友谊。他们也互相帮助，喜欢真诚。他们热爱自己的国家，对国家的荣耀充满热情。他们看待外国人，就像一个王子从自己宫殿的屋顶上用望远镜看待那些在城外居住或游荡的人一样。他们国家的政治事务吸引了他们的注意力，占据了他们的心，有时到了这种程度：这些政治事务分散了他们的精神，把他们的心智或灵从需要更精细、更深入的判断，从而获得更高智慧的研究中抽离出来。那些在学校注意到这些高等研究的年轻人的确热切地追求它们；但他们的兴趣却像流星或缺乏实际的幻觉一样逝去。尽管如此，这些早期研究却激活了他们的理性，这理性闪耀着光芒，他们用这光塑造出美丽的形像，就像转向太阳的水晶棱镜会形成彩虹，并在一个固定下来接受它的平面上以发光的颜色把它绘制出来一样。
808. There is a similarity of mind among the British. As a result, they form close ties with friends from their own country and rarely with others. They give each other aid and love honesty. They are highly patriotic and devote themselves passionately to the glory of their country. Their attitude toward people not born in Britain is much like someone on the roof of a palace looking through a telescope at those who live and wander about outside the city. The politics in their nation occupies their minds and possesses their hearts, sometimes to such a degree that it distracts their spirits from the pursuit of a more refined judgment that would bring them to greater intelligence. As young people and students in the schools they do indeed eagerly tackle such pursuits, but their interest burns out in time like a shooting star. Nevertheless, their rationality is given life by those earlier studies; it sparkles with a light that they shape into beautiful forms, the way a prism placed in the sunlight sends out rainbows and adorns an otherwise plain surface with brilliant colors.
808. Their minds exhibit such similarity that they form close friendships with their compatriots, but rarely with others. They also help one another, and like sincerity. They are patriotic and jealous of their country's honour. They look on foreigners like someone from the roof of his palace turning a telescope upon those who live or wander about outside the town. Their internal politics engross their minds and fill their hearts, sometimes so much so that they withdraw their spirits from studies of more exalted range, the means by which higher intelligence is acquired. Those who devote themselves to such studies in high school learn these things in their youth, but they prove to be transient like atmospheric phenomena. None the less they serve to enliven their rational faculty and make them sparkle, so that they form beautiful pictures, as a crystal prism exposed to sunlight forms rainbows and tinges a screen placed behind it with glowing colours.
808. They possess also a similarity of disposition, which leads them to become closely attached to friends who are of their own nation, but rarely to others; they also aid each other; they love sincerity; they are lovers of their country and are zealous for her glory. They look upon foreigners as one, from the roof of his own palace, might look with a spy-glass at persons dwelling outside of a city, or wandering about there. The political affairs of their kingdom occupy their minds and possess their hearts, sometimes so far as to withdraw their minds from studies of loftier inquiry, by which a higher intelligence is acquired. It is true that these studies are eagerly pursued in youth by those who give attention to them in the schools; but they pass away as transient things. Nevertheless their rationality is quickened by these studies, and sparkles with a light by which they form beautiful images, as a glass prism turned toward the sun forms a rainbow, and paints it in glowing colors on a plane surface fixed to receive it.
808. Similarity of disposition leads them to form intimate friendships with their own countrymen, and seldom with others. They also help one another and love sincerity. They are lovers of their country, and zealous for its glory, and they regard foreigners much as a prince looking through a telescope from the roof ofhis palace regards those who dwell or wander about outside the city. The political affairs of their country engage their attention and possess their hearts, sometimes to such a, degree as to withdraw their minds from studies which require deeper judgment and by which a higher intelligence is attained. These higher studies are indeed pursued by the young people who show an aptitude for such things at school; but they pass away like visions that lack reality. Nevertheless their rationality is quickened by these studies, and it sparkles with a light from which they fashion beautiful images, as a crystal prism, turned towards the sun, forms the colors of the rainbow, and tinges any plain surface presented to it with glowing hues.
808. Est similitudo animorum inter illos, ex qua cum amicis, qui ex Patria eorum sunt, ligant familiaritatem, et raro cum aliis; mutuam opem etiam ferunt; ac sinceritatem amant: Sunt amantes Patriae, et Zelotes ejus gloriae; et spectant Alienigenas, sicut quis ex tecto Palatii sui per tubum opticum spectat ad habitantes et palantes extra urbem. Politica Regni sui occupant mentes et possident corda illorum, quandoque in tantum, ut abstrahant spiritus eorum a studiis sublimioris judicii, per quae superior intelligentia comparatur; haec quidem in juventute illi, qui talibus in Lyceis intendunt, hauriunt; sed transeunt sicut phaenomena; at usque ex illis rationalitas eorum fit viva, et micat luce, ex qua formant pulchras imagines, sicut Prisma Chrystallinum obversum soli format irides, et planum objectum fulvis coloribus tingit.