that is, ourselves), to realise with all their energy the extent to which cruelty constituted the great joy and delight of ancient man, was an ingredient which seasoned nearly all his pleasures, and conversely the extent of the naïveté and innocence with which he manifested his need for cruelty, when he actually made as a matter of principle "disinterested malice" (or, to use Spinoza's expression, the sympathia malevolens) into a normal characteristic of man-as consequently something to which the conscience says a hearty yes.
bestalde zeinen xalo, zeinen errugabe agertzen den bere krudelkeria-beharrizana, zeinen oinarrizkoa hain zuzen ere "gaiztakeria interesgabea" (edo Spinozarekin esateko, sympathia malevolens [gaitzerizko sinpatia] gizakiaren propietate normal bat dela ezartzea: