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I was aware that many men who have accumulated more millions of money than they can ever use have shown a rabid hunger for more, and have not scrupled to cheat the ignorant and the helpless out of their poor savings in order to partially appease that appetite. I furnished a hundred different kinds of wild and tame animals the opportunity to accumulate vast stores of food, but none of them would do it. The squirrels and bees and certain birds made accumulations, but stopped when they had gathered a winter's supply, and could not be persuaded to add to it either honestly or by tricks. These experiments convinced me that there is this difference between man and the higher animals; he is avaricious and miserly, they are not.
我意识到，许多人虽然聚敛了不计其数的财富，然而他们仍然渴望更多，并且肆无忌惮地骗取那些无知无助的人那点儿可怜的积蓄，以此来部分地满足自己的欲望。我向100 种不同的野生动物和家畜提供了储存大量食物的机会，但是没有一种动物试图屯积食物。松鼠、蜜蜂和某些鸟类虽然也进行积累，但当它们积累了足够过冬的食物后，也就停了下来，无论你直言相劝还是玩弄花招都无法说服它们再多屯积一点儿。这些实验让我相信，人和高级动物间的区别：人贪得无厌又爱财如命，这些高级动物却不是如此。
In the course of my experiments I convinced myself that among the animals man is the only one that harbors insults and injuries, broods over them, waits till a chance offers, then takes revenge. The passion of revenge is unknown to the higher animals.
在实验中，我确信在所有的动物中，人是唯一将侮辱和伤窖深记于心，耿耿于怀， 伺机报复的动物。强烈的报复欲望在高级动物中是罕见的。
