53. Had but this one thing been well considered, without looking any deeper into the matter, it might perhaps have kept men from running into those gross mistakes, they have made, about this power of parents; which, however it might, without any great harshness, bear the name of absolute dominion, and regal authority, when under the title of paternal power it seemed appropriated to the father, would yet have founded but oddly, and in the very name shewn the absurdity, if this supposed absolute power over children had been called parental; and thereby have discovered, that it belonged to the mother too:
53. Puntu honi buruzko hausnarketa taxuzkoa egin izan balitz-gaian orokorrean gehiago sakondu gabe-gurasoen boterearen gainean egin diren hutsak saihestu izanen zituzkeen gizateriak. Botere aitatiarraz ari bagara, izenagatik beragatik zailtasun handirik gabe kontsidera genezake aginte edo nagusitasun absolutuaz eta erregeren mailakoaz ari garela. Aldiz, botere hori gurasoena dela esaten bada, seme-alabekiko dagoen boterea absolututzat jotzea zentzugabea irudituko zaigu berehala, izenean bertan ikusten baita botere hori amari ere badagokiola.