Our defeat may be the preface to our successor's victory.

我们的失败可能是我们获胜的开端。

Mercantilism and physiocracy were precursors of the classical economics of Smith and his 19th-century successors.

重商主义和重农主义是斯密的古典经济学及其19世纪（新古典经济学）的理论先。

Should the monogamian family in the distant future fail to answer the requirements of society ... it is impossible to predict the nature of its successor.

如果一夫一妻制家庭在遥远的将来不能满足社会的需要，那也无法预言，它的将具有什么。”