For, though the two flat sides of two pieces of marble will more easily approach each other, between which there is nothing but water or air, than if there be a diamond between them; yet it is not that the parts of the diamond are more solid than those of water, or resist more; but because the parts of water, being more easily separable from each other, they will, by a side motion, be more easily removed, and give way to the approach of the two pieces of marble. But if they could be kept from making place by that side motion, they would eternally hinder the approach of these two pieces of marble, as much as the diamond; and it would be as impossible by any force to surmount their resistance, as to surmount the resistance of the parts of a diamond.
Izan ere, marmol zati biren aldeak bata bestera, bitartean ura edo airea baino ez badute, errazago hurbilduko badira ere, bitartean diamante bat balute baino, hau ez da gertatzen diamantearen atalak urarenak edo airearenak baino solidoagoak direlako edo erresitentzia handiagoa dutelako, baizik uraren atalak, bata bestetik errazago banatzen direlarik, alboranzko higidura batez errazago aldenduko direlako eta marmol zati bien hurbilketari bide emago diotelako. Baina alboranzko higidura horren bidez lekua ematea eragotziko balitzaie, betiko galaraziko lukete marmol zati bi horien hurbilketa, diamanteak bezalaxe; eta edozein indarrek haien erresistentzia gainditzea diamantearen atalen erresistentzia gainditzea bezain ezinezko izanen luke.