But the effect, the moral weight of his argument for the difference principle is, maybe we don't own ourselves in that thoroughgoing sense after all.

，他对于差异原则的道德立足点是，我们也许根本没有自我拥有权。

The most thoroughgoing ascetic could feel that he had a natural right to wander on Egdon—he was keeping within the line of legitimate indulgence when he laid himself open to influences such as these.

他纵情荒原，将自己置于其影响之下，并不出格，完全正当。