It is by a succession of such like transactions that men sink at last to the level of the relaxed morality of this epoch, when there have never been so few of those who square their courses with their theories, so few of those noble characters who do not yield to temptation, for whom the slightest deviation from the line of rectitude is a crime.
Gizonezkoak heltzen dira, horrelako zenbait hautsi-mautsiren ondorioz, egungo garaiak profesatzen duen horrako moral laxo horretarat, non bertze inoiz baino bakanago edireten baitira halako gizon errektangeluarrak, gaizkirat sekula makurtzen ez diren halako borondate onak, zeinei bide zuzenaren zeihardurarik tikiena krimen bat iruditzen baitzaie: