The slow, unceasing ages had been accumulating a priceless inheritance for the American people. Nearly all of their natural resources, in 1865, were still lying fallow, and even undiscovered in many instances.

缓慢而永不停歇的岁月为美国人民积累了无价的遗产。 1865 年，他们几乎所有的自然资源仍处于休耕状态，在许多情况下甚至未被发现。

Nothing was further from the truth; and I hope to show that so far from ruining his art Tolstoy was awakening forces which had lain fallow, and that his religious faith, instead of killing his artistic genius, regenerated it completely.

事实并非如此。我希望表明，到目前为止，托尔斯泰并没有毁掉他的艺术，而是唤醒了闲置的力量，他的宗教信仰并没有扼杀他的艺术天才，而是使之完全重生。