and when at last they came to amuse themselves with the first specimens of printing, woodcuts, and the earliest copper-plate engraving, and when the church, in the same spirit, was growing out, every day, more and more in form and color like the past, they had almost to ask themselves whether they really were living in a modern time, whether it were not a dream, that manners, customs, modes of life, and convictions were all really so changed.
Gauza guzti haiek irudimena aspaldiko garaietara eramaten zuten eta nola berak amaiera ematen zion olgeta hari. Inprimategia, grabatua eta kobrerik aspaldikoenen egunsentia birpasatuz, eta egunero baita eliza ere, gustu haren arabera, haziz zihoan kolorean eta gainerako apainduratan iraganari buruz, non bere buruari ia aldi modernoetan bizi zen galdetzeko zorian aurkitzen zen, ametsa ez ote zen orain ohitura, aztura, bizimodu eta sineste erabat desberdinen erdian aurkitze hura.