and who thinks that even the best of writings are but a reminiscence of what we know, and that only in principles of justice and goodness and nobility taught and communicated orally for the sake of instruction and graven in the soul, which is the true way of writing, is there clearness and perfection and seriousness, and that such principles are a man's own and his legitimate offspring;-being, in the first place, the word which he finds in his own bosom; secondly, the brethren and descendants and relations of his idea which have been duly implanted by him in the souls of others;
Baina, aitzitik, uste duena gauza bidezko, eder eta onei buruz irakatsitako hitzaldietan, ikastearen alde esandakoetan eta benetan ariman idazten direnetan bakarrik dagoela argitasuna, perfekzioa eta ardura merezi izatea; eta horrelako hitzaldiak bere seme-alaba propioak bezala direla esan behar dela ere uste duena-lehenik, bere baitan daukan hitzaldia, barnean baldin badago berak sortua, eta gero, honen ondorengo eta senideak, aldi berean beste gizakien arimetan sortu direnak norberaren balioaren arabera-, eta gainerako hitzaldiei agur esaten diena;