We learn the events of former ages from history; but then we must peruse the volumes in which this instruction is contained, and thence carry up our inferences from one testimony to another, till we arrive at the eyewitnesses and spectators of these distant events.
Kontatzen didaten zeinnahi izatezko zer zergatik sinesten duten galdetzen badut, arrazoi bat eman behar didate, eta arrazoi hori harekin loturiko beste gertaera bat izango da.