But yet there seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas, even of those which are struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive; so that if they be not sometimes renewed, by repeated exercise of the senses, or reflection on those kinds of objects which at first occasioned them, the print wears out, and at last there remains nothing to be seen.
Baina, hala ere, badirudi ideien etangabeko narriadura bat gertatzen dela, are oroimenik atxikitzaileenetan sakonkien inprimaturikoetan euretan ere, hainbestarainokoa, non, baldin lantzean behin sentimenak edo hausnarketa berriro erabiliz errepikatzen ez badira, hasieran ideiok sortarazitako objektuen markak desagertu egiten diren, azkenerako, han, ikus daitekeen ezer ez geratzeraino.