We might perhaps meet death with a desperate resignation or with a resigned despair, delivering up our soul to the soul of humanity, bequeathing to it our work, the work that bears the impress of our person, if it were certain that this humanity were destined to bequeath its soul in its turn to another soul, when at long last consciousness shall have become extinct upon this desire-tormented Earth.
Agian etsipen desesperatuan edo desesperantza etsian hil gintezke, geure arima Gizateriaren arimari eskainiz, geure lana, gure pertsonaren zigilua daraman lana, hari ondaretan utziz, baldin eta gizateria horrek, bere aldetik, geroago bere arima beste arima bati ondarez utzi beharko balio, antsien dolorezko Lur honen gainean azkenik kontzientzia iraungi dadinean.