I was not curious, I did not thirst to know anything save what I believed to be more genuine than myself, what had for me the supreme merit of shewing me a fragment of the mind of a great genius, or of the force or the grace of nature as she appeared when left entirely to herself, without human interference.
Nik ez neukan jakin-minik, ez neukan ezagutzeko egarririk, ni neu baino egiazkoagoa zela uste nuenaz baino, hau da, niri saritzat zera zekarkidana: jenio handi baten pentsamenduaren, edo natura, bere kasa utzia, gizakien esku-hartzerik gabe, aditzera ematen zaigun indarraren edo graziaren zati bat bederen ezagutzea.