how much more is my present image unlike the former, than unlike my dying one? It is too much to abuse nature, to make her trot so far that she must be forced to leave us, and abandon our conduct, our eyes, teeth, legs, and all the rest to the mercy of a foreign and haggard countenance, and to resign us into the hands of art, being weary of following us herself.
Naturaren erabilpen txarra da hain urruneraino herrestatzea non bortxatua gertatzen baita gure garraioaren, gure begien, gure hortzaginen, gure zangoen eta garaitikoaren uztera laguntza arrotz eta artifizial baten faboreari eta, guri jarraikitzeaz asperturik, artearen eskuetan ezartzen baikaitu.