They found themselves clumsy in obeying the simplest directions, confronted with this new and unknown world they had no longer their old guides-the regulative instincts that had led them unconsciously to safety-they were reduced, were those unhappy creatures, to thinking, inferring, calculating, putting together causes and results, reduced to that poorest and most erratic organ of theirs, their "consciousness."
Gauzarik sinpleenetarako gaiezak sentitzen ziren, jadanik ez zeuzkaten, mundu berri ezezagun horretarako, gidari zaharrak, instintu arautzaile eta inkontzienteki hutsezinak,-dohakabeok murrizturik zeuden pentsatzera, arrazoitzera, kalkulatzera, kausak eta ondorioak konbinatzera, beren "kontzientzia"ra, beren organo errukarri eta hutseginkorrenera!