Oftener, however, its credibility rested on the faith of some lonely eyewitness, who beheld the wonder through the colored, magnifying, and distorting medium of his imagination, and shaped it more distinctly in his after-thought.

然而，Oftener 认为它的可信度取决于某个孤独的目击者的信念，这些目击者通过他想象中的彩色、放大和扭曲的媒介看到了奇迹，并在他事后的想法中更清晰地塑造了它。

In thought, at any rate, those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

无论如何，在思想上，那些忘记善恶而只寻求了解事实的人比那些通过扭曲自己的欲望来看待世界的人更有可能实现善。