Compared with that world of immediate action, the beloved Greek province seemed to me to be slumbering in a haze of ideas seldom stirred by change, and the political passivity of the Hellenes appeared a somewhat servile form of renunciation.
Berehalako ekintzatasunean ardazturiko mundu haren aldean, greziar probintzia amoltsua, maizegi arnasturiko ideia-lurrun batean lozorrotua zetzala iruditzen zitzaidan; helendarren geldotasun politikoari ukazio-mota aski txepelaren antzak hartzen nizkion.