How many instances of the use of reason may we observe in children, a long time before they have any knowledge of this maxim, "That it is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be?" And a great part of illiterate people and savages pass many years, even of their rational age, without ever thinking on this and the like general propositions.
Eta jende analfabetoaren eta basatien zati handi batek makina bat urte, are adin arrazionalekoak, pasatzen ditu sekula horretan ez antzeko proposizio orokorretan pentsatu gabe.