If this is so, it is not only writers of romance or sentimental educators (although they may be zealous opponents of sentimentalism), but sometimes even philosophers, nay, even the severest of all, the Stoics, that have brought in moral fanaticism instead of a sober but wise moral discipline, although the fanaticism of the latter was more heroic, that of the former of an insipid, effeminate character; and we may, without hypocrisy, say of the moral teaching of the Gospel, that it first, by the purity of its moral principle, and at the same time by its suitability to the limitations of finite beings, brought all the good conduct of men under the discipline of a duty plainly set before their eyes, which does not permit them to indulge in dreams of imaginary moral perfections; and that it also set the bounds of humility (that is, self-knowledge) to self-conceit as well as to self-love, both which are ready to mistake their limits.
Hori horrela bada, orduan eleberri idazleek edo hezitzaile sentiberak ez ezik (nahiz eta sentiberatasunaren aurka egiten hainbat saiatzen diren), gainera filosofoek, horien arteko zorrotzenek ere bai, estoikoek, gogo-berotasun morala onartu dute ohituren diziplina zuhur baina jakintsuaren ordez, azkenekoen gogo-berotasuna heroikoagoa eta lehenengoena hutsala eta funsgabea bazen ere, eta beraz, zurikeriarik gabe egia osoz esan daiteke Berri Onaren irakaspen moralari buruz ezen, lehenik printzipio moralaren araztasunaren bidez, baina berehala horrek zerizan mugatuen murriztapenekin duen egokitasunagatik, gizakien jokaera on oro begien aurrean jarri zaien betebehar baten diziplinari menperatzen diola, osotasun moral amestuen artean berotzen uzten ez duen betebeharra, eta euren mugak gustura ez-ikusten dituzten hantusteari eta norberaren maitasunari umiltasunaren (hau da, norberaren ezagutzaren) murriztapena ezartzen die