If this opinion be well founded, an opportunity, a business, presents itself, the successful issue of which we can scarcely doubt, and in which all thinking men can equally take part, though they have hitherto been unsuccessful in accomplishing it and in thus confirming the above good opinion. But this is chiefly because the science in question is of so peculiar a kind, that it can be at once brought to completion and to that enduring state that it will never be able to be brought in the least degree farther or increased by later discoveries, or even changed (leaving here out of account adornment by greater clearness in some places, or additional uses), and this is an advantage no other science has or can have, because there is none so fully isolated and independent of others, and which is concerned with the faculty of cognition pure and simple.
horra berebat aukera, aipatu fama on hori frogatzeko ere; ba izan ere, autuko zientzia hau hain da berezia, ze kolpe batean lortu baitezake perfekzio osoa eta erabateko egoera egonkorra, nondik ez baitu gehiago aurreratuko, eta geroagoko deskubrimenduek ere ez baitute ez handiagotuko eta ez aldatuko (nik ez daukat hemen, argitasun handiagoa lortzearren, behin eta berriz emandako esplikaziorik edo zernahi asmo lortzeko erabiltzen den gehigarrizko probetxurik) honelako abantailarik ez dauka beste inolako zientziak eta eduki ere ezin du, ba horietako inork ere ez dauka autugaitzat ezagumen bat, hain erabat isolatua, besteetatik independentea eta besteekin nahastu ezinekoa denik.