keannu
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Can native speakers understand this writing? It's driving me crazy, it's too abstract to understand. Can you understand what the underlined means? It's all confusing!!!
ex)To say that the modern chrysanthemum is better than that of our forefathers because it is more chrysanthemum-like is true only if we make the latter form the arbitrary standard of the chrysanthemum. If the horse of the Eocene age is inferior to the horse of today, it is because it is less horse-like. But who shall decide which is more like a horse, the original or the latter development? No species which is constituted by its own history can be said to have an end in itself, and can, therefore, have an excellence to which it shall attain. In short, good and bad can be applied to the moments in a necessary evolution only by ascribing an imaginary superiority to the last term; and so one type cannot logically be preferred to another.
ex)To say that the modern chrysanthemum is better than that of our forefathers because it is more chrysanthemum-like is true only if we make the latter form the arbitrary standard of the chrysanthemum. If the horse of the Eocene age is inferior to the horse of today, it is because it is less horse-like. But who shall decide which is more like a horse, the original or the latter development? No species which is constituted by its own history can be said to have an end in itself, and can, therefore, have an excellence to which it shall attain. In short, good and bad can be applied to the moments in a necessary evolution only by ascribing an imaginary superiority to the last term; and so one type cannot logically be preferred to another.