the man who learnt to know those "good" ones only as enemies, learnt at the same time not to know them only as "evil enemies" and the same men who inter pares were kept so rigorously in bounds through convention, respect, custom, and gratitude, though much more through mutual vigilance and jealousy inter pares, these men who in their relations with each other find so many new ways of manifesting consideration, self-control, delicacy, loyalty, pride, and friendship, these men are in reference to what is outside their circle (where the foreign element, a foreign country, begins), not much better than beasts of prey, which have been let loose.
"on" haiek etsai gisa bakarrik ezagutu dituenak, etsai gaiztoak besterik ez ditu ezagutu, eta gizaki haiek azturak, begiruneak, usarioak, esker onak eta oraindik areago elkarren zainketak, inter pares [berdinen artean] lehiak hain zorrozki neurrian mantenduak, gizaki haiek berek, zeinek bestalde elkarrekiko portaeran hainbesteko asmamena erakusten duten, arreta, norbere burua menperatze, finezia, fideltasun, harrotasun eta adiskidantzari dagokienez,-kanporantz, hau da, arrotza, atzerria hasten den tokian ez dira solte utzitako piztia harrapariak baino askozaz hobeak.