To an impartial student who gravely doubted whether the Czar himself acted as a conscious force or an inert weight, the straight-forward avowals of Roosevelt had singular value as a standard of measure.

对于一个严重怀疑沙皇本人是有意识的力量还是惰性砝码的公正学生来说，罗斯福直截了当的声明作为衡量标准具有独特的价值。