在《資本主義:金錢、道德與市場》譯本25頁中間,原著作者引述法國啟蒙思想家伏爾泰的 Letters on England (1778) :
"Take a view of the Royal Exchange in London, a place more venerable than many courts of justice, where the representatives of all nations meet for the benefit of mankind. There the Jew, the Mahometan, and the Christian transact together, as though they all professed the same religion, and give the name of infidel to none but bankrupts. There thee Presbyterian confides in the Anabaptist, and the Churchman depends on the Quaker's word. At the breaking up of this pacific and free assembly, some withdraw to the synagogue, and others to take a glass. This man goes and is baptized in a great tub, in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; that man has his son's foreskin cut off, whilst a set of Hebrew words (quite unintelligible to him) are mumbled over his child. Others retire to their churches, and there wait for the inspiration of heaven with their hats on, and all are satisfied.”
第一句中的 courts of justice(法院)居然被錯譯為『宮廷』(譯本25頁4行);倒數第二句 that man has his son's foreskin cut off, whilst a set of Hebrew words (quite unintelligible to him) are mumbled over his child,明明是一個猶太人依照猶太教規而為兒子行割禮(割包皮),his child 就是他的這個小孩,卻被譯成『聖嬰』(譯本25頁倒數3行)。