It was the sort of idea that might easily decondition the more unsettled minds among the higher castes-make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing, instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge. Which was, the Controller reflected, quite possibly true.
batek ba zekien noraino hel zitekeen. Honelako ideiak dira goiko kastetan hain gogorki moldaturik ez dauden buruak erraxkienik desegoki ditzaketenak, hauei Ondasun Nagusia zoriona delako fedea galdu eraginaz eta beronen lekuan, helburua presenteko giza esfera honetatik kanpoko beste edozein tokitan dagoela sinetsaraziaz; hots, bizitzaren zeregina ez dela erosotasunaren mantenatzea, kontzientziaren berrindartze eta lantze bat, jakitearen gehitze bat, baizik.