After long and patient negotiations, President Wilson in 1917 called upon the nation to take up arms against an assailant that had in effect declared war upon America.

经过漫长而耐心的谈判，威尔逊总统于 1917 年呼吁全国拿起武器对抗实际上已向美国宣战的袭击者。

(—Perhaps one will here recall that Athenian who also declared war upon pure " scientificality, " to wit, Socrates, who also elevated egoism to the estate of a morality).

（——也许人们会在这里回忆起同样向纯粹的“科学性”宣战的雅典人，即苏格拉底，他也将利己主义提升到道德的高度）。