Virtue in the olden time had its secure and determinate significance, for it found the fullness of its content and its solid basis in the substantial life of the nation, and had for its purpose and end a concrete good that existed and lay at its hand:
-Antzinako bertuteak bere esanahi ziur determinatua zuen, herriaren substantzian baitzuen bere oina rritzapen edukiz betea, eta dagoeneko existitzen zen ona-dena zuen bere xede gisa;