Since the wandering of the tribes lies between us and all ancient nations, as the change of the bed of the ocean lies between the earth's surface as it is to-day and as it was when those organisations existed which we only know from fossil remains, it is to be regarded generally as a great misfortune that the people whose culture was to be the principal basis of our own were not the Indians or the Greeks, or even the Romans, but these very Jews.
-Gure eta antzinako herri zahar guztien artean herri-migrazioa dagoen bezala, horrela behialako itsas zolaren aldaketa dago oraingo lur-gainaldearen eta ordukoaren artean, zeinen antolakuntzak harri bihurturik bakarrik azaltzen baitzaizkigu;