And it is objectivity itself that requires him to say here that while the greatest suffering of the time, the most widespread and the deepest, was separation, and while it is necessary in all conscience to give a new description of it at this point in the plague, it is also quite true that even this suffering lost all its pathos.
Objektibotasun horrek berak behartzen du orain esatera garai hartako sufrimendu handia, nahiz orokorrena hala nola sakonena, bereizkuntzarena baldin bazen, eta egiaren izenean izurritearen egoera horren azalpen berri bat eskaintzea derrigorrezkoa baldin bada, egia da ere sufrimendu hark bere erdiragarritasuna galtzen ari zela.