There are tribes and peoples whose education has been so vicious, and whose character presents so strange a mixture of passion, of ignorance, and of erroneous notions upon all subjects, that they are unable to discern the causes of their own wretchedness, and they fall a sacrifice to ills with which they are unacquainted.
Herri batzuetan lehen heziketa hain akastuna izan denez, eta beraien izaeran grina, ezjakintasun eta gauza guztiei buruzko nozio okerren hain nahasketa arraroa dagoenez, herri horiek beren kabuz ez lukete asmatuko beren zorigaitzen kausa bereizten. Ezagutzen ez dituzten gaitzen azpian erortzen dira.