It is because man is capable of rising above the things of the body, and of contemning life itself, of which the beasts have not the least notion, that he can multiply these same things of the body to a degree which inferior races are equally unable to conceive.
Gizakia gorputz-ondasunak gainditzeko eta bizia bera ere gutxiesteko gai delako-honetaz animaliek ideiarik ere ez dute-, gizakiak badaki ondasun horiek beroriek imajinaezinezko mailaraino ugaltzen.