Therefore, most persons would demand that a man who had a very high degree of wickedness which might yet occur in many others, only not matched with other qualities such as are found in him, a man who also far surpassed others by extraordinary intellectual powers, and who inflicted unspeakable sufferings upon millions of others-for example, as a conqueror,-most persons, I say, would demand that such a man should at some time and in some place expiate all these sufferings by a like amount of pain;
-Horregatik eskatuko lukete gehienek gaiztakeria-gradu oso garaia duen gizaki batek, zeina bera askotan, bakarrik ez beste gaitasun batzuekin beragan bezala parekaturik aurki litekeelarik, espiritu-indar ezohikoen bitartez besteen aldean oso gainetik legokeelarik, eta zeinak horien ondorioz ezin esanezko sofrimenduak beste milioikari eragin bailiezaizkieke, adibidez, konkistatzaile gisa-eskatuko lukete, diot nik, horrelakoak sofrimendu horiek guztiak noizbait eta nonbait minen neurri berdinaren bidez pekatzea;