Nature, we may rest assured, has her own good and cogent reasons for whatever she does and in all probability such deaths are due to some law of anticipation by which organisms in which morbous germs have taken up their residence (modern science has conclusively shown that only the plasmic substance can be said to be immortal) tend to disappear at an increasingly earlier stage of development, an arrangement which, though productive of pain to some of our feelings (notably the maternal), is nevertheless, some of us think, in the long run beneficial to the race in general in securing thereby the survival of the fittest.
Izadiak, lasai egon gintezke, bere zergati on eta burutsuak ditu egiten duan edozertarako eta seguruenera olako eriotzak gorputz oyetan beren bizilekua egiten duten ernamuñ gaixoarazleak men egiten dioten aurreratze legeren baten ondorio dira, (jakintza berriak erakutsi du argiro odol-barnemuiña bakarrik dala illezkor), eta gorputz oyek garapen malla gero eta goiztarragoan itzaltzeko joera dutela, konponbide bat, sentimentu batzuk mintzen dizkigun arren (bereziki amarenak), alaz guztiz ere dana, ala uste degu gutako batzuok, epe luzera begira, onuragarria endarentzat osotara, egokienen iraupena ziurtatzen baitu ola.