The columnist finally exclaimed that children will not forgive the pompous adult world for closing the zoo, and that the empty and silent cages will stand as "a melancholy monument to the vanity of human benevolence."
作者聲稱，關園後，孩子們將不會感激虛偽霸道的成人世界；動物園空寂的籠柵，將成為人類人道虛榮的紀念碑。