When the citizens of a community are classed according to their rank, their profession, or their birth, and when all men are constrained to follow the career which happens to open before them, everyone thinks that the utmost limits of human power are to be discerned in proximity to himself, and none seeks any longer to resist the inevitable law of his destiny.
Hiritarrak gizarte-mailaren, lanbidearen, jaiotzaren arabera sailkaturik daudenean eta zoriak jarri dituen bidean guztiak aurrera joatera beharturik daudenean, bakoitzak uste izaten du berengandik hurbil hautematen dituela giza ahalmenaren azken mugak, eta inor ez da saiatzen ekidinezinezko destinoaren kontra borrokatzen.