-on the contrary, punishment was inflicted in those days for the same reason that parents punish their children even nowadays, out of anger at an injury that they have suffered, an anger which vents itself mechanically on the author of the injury-but this anger is kept in bounds and modified through the idea that every injury has somewhere or other its equivalent price, and can really be paid off, even though it be by means of pain to the author.
-baizik, areago, oraindik gurasoek seme-alabak zigortzen dituzten erara, kalte bat jasan izanagatiko koleraz, zein kausatzailearen gain asaskatzen baita,-baina kolera horri neurri batzuen barruan eusten zaio eta aldarazi egiten du kalte orok nonbait bere baliokidea daukalako eta errealki konpentsatua izan daitekeelako ideiak, nahiz eta kaltearen kausatzailearen minarekin bada ere.