If we have so far convinced ourselves a priori, by the most general consideration, by investigation of the primary and elemental features of human life, that in its whole plan it is capable of no true blessedness, but is in its very nature suffering in various forms, and throughout a state of misery, we might now awaken this conviction much more vividly within us if, proceeding more a posteriori, we were to turn to more definite instances, call up pictures to the fancy, and illustrate by examples the unspeakable misery which experience and history present, wherever one may look and in whatever direction one may seek.
Kontsiderazio orokorrenen bitartez, giza bizitzaren lehen oinarri-ezaugarri elementalen azterketaren bitartez a priori egin litekeen neurrian, geure burua konbentzitu dugu hori bere disposizioz ez dela gai egiazko dohatsutasuna emateko, baizik esentzian taxu askotako sofrimendua eta egoera erabat dohakabea dela; horrela konbentzimendu horrek orain askozaz bizikiago piztaraz dezake gugan, baldin eta, gehiago a posteriori ibiliz, kasu determinatuetan sartzen bagara, koadroak fantasiaren aurrera ekarri eta adibidetan atsekabe izengabea deskribatu nahiko bagenu, esperientzia eta historia eskainiko bagenitu, zeinetara begiratu eta edozein asmorekin ikertu nahi dela ere.