然而，高度的完善似乎并没有使我们的邪恶倾向如此壮大。如果文明本身可以通过其某些结果来估算，那么我们所谓的世界野蛮部分保持不变似乎会更好。
(A high degree of refinement, however, does not seem to subdue our wicked propensities so much after all; and were civilization itself to be estimated by some of its results, it would seem perhaps better for what we call the barbarous part of the world to remain unchanged.)
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