In man, as in the brute which does not think, the certainty that springs from his inmost consciousness that he himself is Nature, the world, predominates as a lasting frame of mind; and on account of this no man is observably disturbed by the thought of certain and never-distant death, but lives as if he would live for ever.
Beragan ere, pentsatzen ez duen animaliarengan bezala, egoera iraunkor gisa nagusitzen da bera natura, mundua bera dela, kontzientzia barnekoenetik sortzen den segurtasuna, zeinaren indarrez heriotza ziur eta ez urrunaren pentsamenduak ez baitu kezkarazten, baizik bakoitzak bizitzen jarraitzen du, beti bizi behar balu bezala;