If it be easy to see that it is more particularly important in democratic ages that spiritual opinions should prevail, it is not easy to say by what means those who govern democratic nations may make them predominate. I am no believer in the prosperity, any more than in the durability, of official philosophies;
Erraz ulertzen bada batez ere demokrazi garaietan komeni dela iritzi izpiritualistak nagusiaraztea, ez da erraza esatea hori lortzeko zer egin behar duten herri demokratikoak gobernatzen dituztenek.