To minds thus predisposed, every new method which leads by a shorter road to wealth, every machine which spares labor, every instrument which diminishes the cost of production, every discovery which facilitates pleasures or augments them, seems to be the grandest effort of the human intellect.
Honelako jarrera duten izpirituei, bide laburragorik aberastasunera daraman metodo berri oro, lanaldia laburtzen duen makina oro, produkzio-gastuak gutxitzen dituen tresna oro, plazerak erraztu eta areagotzen dituen aurkikuntza oro, giza adimenaren ahaleginik zoragarriena iruditzen zaie.