But soon it happened that, like those natural phenomena from which our comfort or our health can derive but an accidental and all too modest benefit, until the day when science takes control of them, and, producing them at will, places in our hands the power to order their appearance, withdrawn from the tutelage and independent of the consent of chance; similarly the production of these dreams of the Atlantic and of Italy ceased to depend entirely upon the changes of the seasons and of the weather.
Baina, laster, hala nola gertatzen zaigun gure erosotasunak edo gure osasunak onura behin-behineko eta aski badaezpadakoa besterik ezin atera izaten duten fenomeno naturalekin-harik eta zientziak berauei erreparatu eta, nahita ekoitziz, gure esku jartzen digun arte berauen agerrarazteko posibilitatea, halabeharraren babesetik eta baimen-beharretik aske-, halaxe, nire Atlantiko-eta Italia-ametsen ekoizmenak ere utzi egin zion urte-sasoien eta eguraldi-aldaketen menpe egoteari.