-This mental modification, or imagination of a particular thing, in so far as it is alone in the mind, is called Wonder; but if it be excited by an object of fear, it is called Consternation, because wonder at an evil keeps a man so engrossed in the simple contemplation thereof, that he has no power to think of anything else whereby he might avoid the evil.
Izpirituaren afekzioa, edo gauza singularraren irudikapena, Izpirituan bakarrik gertatzen den aldetik, Mirespena deitzen da, eta izutzen gaituen objektu batek eragina bada, Laztura erraten zaio, zeren gaitz baten Mirespenak gaitz horren kontenplatze soilean gizakia atxikitzen baitu, halako gisaz non, gaitz hori bazter diezaiokeen beste zerbait gauzari pentsatzeko ez baita gai.