The men of those ages therefore naturally, and in a manner involuntarily, accustom themselves to fix their gaze for a long course of years on some immovable object, towards which they are constantly tending; and they learn by insensible degrees to repress a multitude of petty passing desires, in order to be the better able to content that great and lasting desire which possesses them.
Hortaz, garai horietako jendea ohitu egiten da beraz-eta nahi gabe, nolabait esateko-, urte-sail luzean mugigaitz bat gogoan izatera, etengabe jotzen dutelarik horretarantz, eta, aurrerapen sumagaitzen bidez, mila gurari txiki iragankor erreprimitzen ikasten dute, kezkatzen dituen desira handi eta iraunkor hori hobeto asebetetzera iristeko.