it imposes the same observances upon the rich and needy, it inflicts the same austerities upon the strong and the weak, it listens to no compromise with mortal man, but, reducing all the human race to the same standard, it confounds all the distinctions of society at the foot of the same altar, even as they are confounded in the sight of God.
praktika berberak ezartzen dizkio aberatsari zein behartsuari, laztasun berberak jasanarazten ahaltsuari edo ahulari; ez dio trikimainarik onartzen inori eta, gizaki guztiei neurgailu bera aplikatzean, gizarte-klase guztiak aldare beraren aurrean nahastea gustatzen zaio, Jainkoaren aurrean nahasturik dauden bezalaxe.