[中文] 我一直在以对比人类的特征和性情的方式,来研究“低等动物”的特征和性情。研究结果很让我羞愧。因为它迫使我放弃了我所忠实信任的达尔文的“人类是由低等生物进化而来的”这一原理,而开始相信“人类是由高等生物退化而来的”。刚开始面对这个令人不开心的结论时,我并不是仅仅去进行猜测或推理,而是采用了世人普遍认为科学的方法来验证。[/中文]
[外文] I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals", and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I found the result humiliating to me. For it obliges me to renounce my allegance to the Darwinian theory of Ascent of Man from the Lower animals and to name it the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals. In proceeding towards this unpleasent conclusion I have not guessed or speculated or conjectured, but have used what is commenly called the scientific method. [/外文]
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