How can I venture to present a book to the public under conditions and demands the first two of which are presumptuous and altogether immodest, and this at a time when there is such a general wealth of special ideas, that in Germany alone they are made common property through the press, in three thousand valuable, original, and absolutely indispensable works every year, besides innumerable periodicals, and even daily papers;
baizik eta Alemanian bakarrik horietako gehiago batera bizi baitira, gainerako mende guztiek bata bestearen ondotik erakutsi dituztenak baino?, nolatan, galdetzen du irakurle desarmatuak, lortuko dut bukatzea, baldin eta liburu bakar batekin hainbesteko ahalegina egin behar bada?