I here used the word manners with the meaning which the ancients attached to the word mores, for I apply it not only to manners in their proper sense of what constitutes the character of social intercourse, but I extend it to the various notions and opinions current among men, and to the mass of those ideas which constitute their character of mind.
Hemen ohiturak esatean, antzinakoek mores hitzari ematen zioten zentzuan hartzen dut; ez diet ohitura-ohiturei bakarrik aplikatzen, bihotz-azturak dei daitezkeenei alegia, baita gizakien nozio ezberdinei, beraien artean dabiltzan iritzi ezberdinei eta izpirituaren azturak eratzen dituzten ideia guztiei ere.