convinced that my thoughts would have seemed pure foolishness to that perfected spirit, I had so completely obliterated them all that, if I happened to find in one of his books something which had already occurred to my own mind, my heart would swell with gratitude and pride as though some deity had, in his infinite bounty, restored it to me, had pronounced it to be beautiful and right.
nire pentsamenduok halako izpiritu bikain bati tentelkeria hutsak irudituko litzaizkiokeela erabat sinetsitik, hain tabula rasa egina nuen neure baitako ikuspuntu guztiez non, behin batean, halabeharrez, haren liburu bat irakurtzen ari nintzela, nik neuk ere lehendik oldoztua nuèn gogoeta batekin topo egin nuenean, nire bihotza hain erabat puztu baitzen nola egingo baitzatekeen baldin gogoeta hura Jainko batek oparitu izan balio, bere onaren onez, zilegitzat eta edertzat onetsirik.