for since all knowledge is by their means and mediation conveyed unto us, if they fail in their report, if they corrupt or alter what they bring us from without, if the light which by them creeps into the soul be obscured in the passage, we have nothing else to hold by.
zeren, ezagutza oro heldu denez geroz gure baitara haien artekatze eta bidez, huts badagite egiten diguten berrian, usteltzen edo aldatzen badute kanpotik dakarkigutena, haien bidez gure gogora isurtzen den argia iluntzen bada iraganbidean, ez baitugu gehiagorik zeri lotu.