He began with the argument that we whites, from the point of development we had arrived at, 'must necessarily appear to them [savages] in the nature of supernatural beings-we approach them with the might of a deity,' and so on, and so on.
Abiapuntuko argudioan zioenez, guk zuriok, lortu dugun garapen mailagatik, "naturaz gaindiko gizakien antza izan behar dugu haientzat (basatientzat); jainkoek adinako ahalmenarekin hurreratzen gatzaizkie" eta abar, eta abar.