It is nothing but moral fanaticism and exaggerated self-conceit that is infused into the mind by exhortation to actions as noble, sublime, and magnanimous, by which men are led into the delusion that it is not duty, that is, respect for the law, whose yoke (an easy yoke indeed, because reason itself imposes it on us) they must bear, whether they like it or not, that constitutes the determining principle of their actions, and which always humbles them while they obey it; fancying that those actions are expected from them, not from duty, but as pure merit.
Gogoberotasun morala eta hantustearen areagotzea besterik ez da gogamenei ezartzen zaiena ekintzetara animatuz noble, bikain eta eskuzabal gisa, eta haiek horren bidez ilusio honetara ekartzen dira, hots, betebeharra ez dela, hau da, legearen alderako begirunea, horren zama (arrazoimenak berak ezartzen digulako leuna bada ere) eraman behar dutela gogoz kontra bada ere, haien ekintzen determinazio-oinarria osatzen duena, eta haiek umiliatzen dituena, hura betetzen duten heinean (hari men egiten dioten heinean), baizik eta ekintza haiek ez betebeharragatik, baizik eta eurengatik espero zitezkeela merezimendu soil gisa.