Forgetfulness is no mere vis inertiæ, as the superficial believe, rather is it a power of obstruction, active and, in the strictest sense of the word, positive-a power responsible for the fact that what we have lived, experienced, taken into ourselves, no more enters into consciousness during the process of digestion (it might be called psychic absorption) than all the whole manifold process by which our physical nutrition, the so-called "incorporation," is carried on.
Hori ez da vis inertiae [inertziazko indar] soil bat, axalekoek uste dutenez inhibizio-gaitasun aktiboa, terminoaren zentzu hertsienean positiboa dena, zeini egotzi behar baitzaio guk bizi izandako, esperimentaturiko, gugan asumituriko bakarra, gure kontzientzian barrentzea, digestio-egoeran ("arimaratze" dei lekioke), gure gorputzaren elikatzea garatzen den prozesu era-anitz guztia, "gorputzeratze" deritzana bertan barrentzen den bezain gutxi.