第8句见：Day8
《哲学的故事》的第9句：序言中的第1段第9句。

Introduction
On the uses of Philosophy
There is a pleasure in philosophy, and a lure even in the mirages of metaphysics, which every student feels until the coarse necessities of physical existence drag him from the heights of thought into the mart of economic strife and gain. Most of us have known some golden days in the June of life when philosophy was in fact what Plato calls it, “that dear delight”; when the love of a modestly elusive Truth seemed more glorious, incomparably, than the lust for the ways of the flesh and the dross of the world. And there is always some wistful remnant in us of that early wooing of wisdom. "Life has meaning,”we feel with Browning—“to find its meaning is my meat and drink.” So much of our lives is meaningless, a self-cancelling vacillation and futility; we strive with the chaos about us and within; but we would believe all the while that there is something vital and significant in us, could we but decipher our own souls. We want too understand; “life means for us constantly to transform into light and flame all that are or meet with”; we are like Mitya in The Brothers Karamazov —“one of those who don’t want millions, but an answer to their questions”; we want to seize the value and perspective of passing things, and so to pull ourselves up out of the maelstrom of daily circumstance. We want to know that the little things are little, and the big things big, before it is too late; we want to see things now as they will seem forever—"in the light of eternity.” We want to learn to laugh in the face of the inevitable, to smile even at the looming of death. We want to be whole, to coördinate our energies by criticizing and harmonizing our desires; for coördinated energy is the last word in ethics and politics, and perhaps in logic and metaphysics too. "To be a philosopher," said Thoreau, "is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live, according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust." We may be sure that if we can but find wisdom, all things else will be added unto us. "Seek ye first the good things of the mind," Bacon admonishes us, "and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt." Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.
浙江大学版本： 希望保持完整，通过分辨和协调欲望来调整精力分配，因为协调精力是伦理学、政治学，乃至逻辑学和形而上学的基石。

解析

这句话探讨了协调在哲学的各个分支的重要性。
1、We want to be whole, to coördinate our energies by criticizing and harmonizing our desires; coördinate 与harmonize 调和是哲学的调性之一

• coördinate： to make arrangements so that two or more people or groups of people can work together properly and well
  e.g. She'll be coordinating the relief effort.
• harmonize： to cause (two or more things) to be combined or to go together in a pleasing or effective way
  e.g. The singers harmonized their voices beautifully.

2、for coördinated energy is the last word in ethics and politics, and perhaps in logic and metaphysics too.
the last word in：the newest and best type of something最好的

These works seemed to me the last word in painting.
我认为在当代绘画中再也没有别的作品能超过这几幅画了。

我们希望成为完整的人，通过批判与协调欲望来融合我们的力量；因为融合过的力量是伦理学、政治学的最高原则，也许逻辑学和形而上学也是如此。

儒家的中庸也讲调和，哲学也讲调和，两者多少的共同及区分还是值得慢慢了解。