When Raphael had thus made an end of speaking, though many things occurred to me, both concerning the manners and laws of that people, that seemed very absurd, as well in their way of making war, as in their notions of religion and divine matters-together with several other particulars, but chiefly what seemed the foundation of all the rest, their living in common, without the use of money, by which all nobility, magnificence, splendour, and majesty, which, according to the common opinion, are the true ornaments of a nation, would be quite taken away-yet since I perceived that Raphael was weary, and was not sure whether he could easily bear contradiction, remembering that he had taken notice of some, who seemed to think they were bound in honour to support the credit of their own wisdom, by finding out something to censure in all other men's inventions, besides their own, I only commended their Constitution, and the account he had given of it in general;
horrek berak baitu alabaina, herri-iritziaren arabera edozein Estaturen edergailua eta apaindura egiazkoa egiten duen noblezia, loria, distira eta larderia guzia errausten. Bainekien bizkitartean hitz egiteaz nekatua zela; ez bainintzen ere fida besteak haren iritzi bereko ez izaitea jasaiten ahalko zuela, eta bereziki gogoan bainuen lagun zenbait gaizkitu zituela besteen berrikeria batzuk ez baldin bazituzten apur bat zuzentzen, ez aski zuhur agertzeko beldur izan zirelakotz;