That idea-"the wrong-doer deserves punishment because he might have acted otherwise," in spite of the fact that it is nowadays so cheap, obvious, natural, and inevitable, and that it has had to serve as an illustration of the way in which the sentiment of justice appeared on earth, is in point of fact an exceedingly late, and even refined form of human judgment and inference;
Orain hain arrunta eta itxuraz hain naturala, hain saihestezina den pentsamendu hori, zuzentasun sentimendua lurrean nola agertu zen azaltzeko aurreratu behar izan dena, "errudunak zigorra merezi du, zeren beste era batera jokatu ahal izan baitu", izatez oso berandu eskuraturiko era da, areago, gizakiaren jolas egite eta arrazoitzearen era findu bat;