This is the immutable condition, the eternal law of extensive and detached empire.

这是不变的条件， 是广袤超然帝国的永恒法则。

Beyond lay Russia, and there an older, perhaps a surer, power, resting on the eternal law of inertia, held its own.

远处是俄罗斯， 那里有一个更古老的、也许更可靠的力量， 它建立在永恒的惯性法则之上， 拥有自己的力量。

The point is that these differences are natural; that, in eliciting them, we obey the eternal law of things, and no human caprice.

关键是这些差异是自然的； 在引出它们时， 我们遵守事物的永恒法则， 而不是人为的任性。

But with this small gap, with this small breach, the entire eternal and uniform law of the world is breaking apart again and becomes void.

可就这么一个小小的缺口，这个小小的缺口，整个世界永恒统一的法则又一次崩裂，化为虚无。