and from an early date, even before the course of my scientific discoveries had begun to suggest the most naked possibility of such a miracle, I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved day-dream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.
Nire baitakoak zeuzkan bi izateak aldi berean neureak zirela esan zitekeela ikusi nuen oso garbi, zeren bi-biak osorik neu nintzelako, eta aspaldiko egunetatik, nire aurkikuntza zientifikoei esker halako mirariaren posibilitaterik urrutiena susmatzen hasi baino are lehenagotikan ere, atseginez pentsatzeari ekin nion, amets bati laztanka arituko bainintzan, bi elementu horiek bereiztean.