The letter of the law (legality) would be found in our actions, but not the spirit of it in our minds (morality); and as with all our efforts we could not quite free ourselves from reason in our judgement, we must inevitably appear in our own eyes worthless, depraved men, even though we should seek to compensate ourselves for this mortification before the inner tribunal, by enjoying the pleasure that a supposed natural or divine law might be imagined to have connected with it a sort of police machinery, regulating its operations by what was done without troubling itself about the motives for doing it.
Legearen idazkera (legezkotasuna) topatuko litzateke gure ekintzetan, baina ez litzateke haren espiriturik aurkituko gure jaiduretan (moraltasuna), eta guk ahalegin guztiak egin arren, gure judizioan arrazoimena baztertu ezin dugunez, ezinbestean gure begien aurrean gizaki ezduin, alferrik galdutakoa izatea iruditu beharko litzaiguke, nahiz eta barne epaimahaiaren aurrean egozpen hori dela eta kalterik gabe mantentzen saiatu, guk onartutako naturaren edo Jainkoaren lege batek gure asmamenaren arabera bere poliziaren mekanismoarekin (zeina egiten denari jarraitzen zaion, hori egiteko bultzatzaileez arduratu gabe) lot zezakeen plazeraz gozatuz.