(The curve of human sensibilities to pain seems indeed to sink in an extraordinary and almost sudden fashion, as soon as one has passed the upper ten thousand or ten millions of over-civilised humanity, and I personally have no doubt that, by comparison with one painful night passed by one single hysterical chit of a cultured woman, the suffering of all the animals taken together who have been put to the question of the knife, so as to give scientific answers, are simply negligible.) We may perhaps be allowed to admit the possibility of the craving for cruelty not necessarily having become really extinct:
niri dagokidanez, ez dut inolako zalantzarik emakume histeriko kulto baten gau oinazetsu bakar baten aldean gaur arte erantzun zientifikoak lortzeko labanaz itaunketa egin zaien animalia guztienak batera, ez direla inola ere kontuan hartzekoak). Agian zilegi izan liteke onartzea krudelkeriako plazer haren ahalbidea bera ere ez dagoela iraungia;