I am sorry that Lycurgus and Plato had no knowledge of them; for to my apprehension, what we now see in those nations, does not only surpass all the pictures with which the poets have adorned the golden age, and all their inventions in feigning a happy state of man, but, moreover, the fancy and even the wish and desire of philosophy itself;
Haurrek duten gurasoekikoa begirunea da. Adiskidantza harremanetan hazten da, haien artekoa ezinezkoa baita, dagoen ezberdintasun handiegiaz, eta menturaz naturazko eginbideen aurka litzateke, izatekotan.