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The higher animals engage in individual fights, but never in organized masses. Man is the only one that deals in the atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only animal that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and with calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out, as the Hessians did in our Revolution, and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.
高級動物進行個體爭斗，但從不組織大規模戰斗。人是唯一從事戰爭這一殘暴至 極的行為的動物，他是唯一能把同胞聚集在周圍，殘忍地發動戰爭，平靜地消滅其同類的動物。人是唯一能為了骯臟的軍餉出發征戰的動物，就像黑森雇傭兵在我國獨立戰爭中那樣，助紂為虐，屠殺那些素不相識、未曾傷害過他、也沒有與他發生過爭執的同類。
Man is the only animal that robs his helpless fellow of his country—takes possession of it and drives him out of it or destroys him. Man has done this in all the ages. There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle after cycle, by force and bloodshed.
人是唯一搶掠無助同類的國家的動物——侵占同類的土地，把他們趕走，或者除掉。從古至今人一直在這樣做。地球上沒有哪一英畝土地歸屬于它真正的合法擁有者，無不是被用武力和殺戮從一個又一個擁有者手里奪走，一次又一次輪換著主人。
