Seemingly (though not in reality) effortless, such civility is a way of shielding others from personal claims in public – an essential feature of the abstract, impersonal relationships demanded by the open society.
看似（儘管不是在現實中）毫不費力，這種文明是一種屏蔽他人免受公共個人主張的方式 - 是一種開放社會所要求的抽象，非個人關係的一個基本特徵。