The lore which he was believed to pass his days brooding upon so that it had rapt him from the companionship of youth was only a garner of slender sentences from Aristotle's poetics and psychology and a SYNOPSIS PHILOSOPHIAE SCHOLASTICAE AD MENTEM DIVI THOMAE. His thinking was a dusk of doubt and self-mistrust, lit up at moments by the lightnings of intuition, but lightnings of so clear a splendour that in those moments the world perished about his feet as if it had been fire-consumed;
Ustez egun osoa hausnarketan pasarazten zion jakintza eta gaztaroko lagunartetik hain apartaturik zeukana ez ziren Aristotelesen poetika eta psikologiatiko esaldi apain sorta bat eta Synopsis Philosophiae Scholasticae ad mentem divi Thomae besterik. Bere pentsamenduak zalantza eta auto-mesfidantzaren ilunabarrean zeutzan, aldian-aldian intuizioaren distirak argi egiten zielarik, baina halakoxe distira garden bikainak, ezen une horietan mundua oinpean desagertzen baitzitzaion suak kontsumiturik bezala;