And more than ever to-day, when there is so much chatter about our backwardness compared with other civilized peoples, to-day when a parcel of shallow-brained critics say that we have had no science, no art, no philosophy, no Renaissance, (of this we had perhaps too much), no anything, these same critics being ignorant of our real history, a history that remains yet to be written, the first task being to undo the web of calumniation and protest that has been woven around it.
Eta are gehiago orain, gainerako herri landuekiko dugun atzerapenaren kontzientziaz hainbeste berba egiten deneon; orain, geure historia ez dekiguten zenbait ergelek-oraindik egiteko dena, aurretik protestanteen kalumniak horren inguruan bilbatu duena lehenago deseginez-diote ez dugula zientziarik izan, ez arterik, ez filosofiarik, ez Ernazimendurik (hori agian soberan genuen), ez ezer.