For there are many who, while they go about looking out for I know not what ideal-that is to say, fictitious duties and responsibilities-neglect the duty of putting their whole soul into the immediate and concrete business which furnishes them with a living; and the rest, the immense majority, perform their task perfunctorily, merely for the sake of nominally complying with their duty-para cumplir, a terribly immoral phrase-in order to get themselves out of a difficulty, to get the job done, to qualify for their wages without earning them, whether these wages be pecuniary or otherwise.
Izan ere, zenbaitzuk hemendik ez dakit nik zer nolako betebehar eta erantzunkizun idealak, hau da, fikziozkoak, bilatzen ari diren bitartean, berek ez dute beren arima osoa ipintzen bizi direneko zeregin hurbil eta konkretuan, eta gainerakoek, gehien-gehienek, ez dute beren ofizioa betetzen, eskuarki esaten denez konplitzeko besterik-konplitzearren, itzelezko esaldi inmorala-, estuasunetik irtetearren, zeozer egiten delako itxura egitearren, sariari, diruzkoari edo bestelakoari, aitzakia, eta ez justizia, emateagatik.