In answer to which I assured his honour, "that in all points out of their own trade, they were usually the most ignorant and stupid generation among us, the most despicable in common conversation, avowed enemies to all knowledge and learning, and equally disposed to pervert the general reason of mankind in every other subject of discourse as in that of their own profession."
Honi erantzunez, baieztatu nion jaun ohoragarri hari, beren lanbideari ez zegozkion gai guztietan, gure arteko ezjakin eta inozoenak izan ohi zirela gehienetan, mesprezagarrienak harreman arruntetan, jakintza eta kultura guztiaren etsai amorratuak, eta beren lanbidean bezalakoxe joera izaten zutela beste edozein hizketa-gaitan ere gizateriaren zentzu ona galbideratzeko.