The act, then, which embraces the entire existence of the blood relation does not concern the citizen, for he does not belong to the family, nor does it deal with one who is going to be a citizen and so will cease to have the significance of a mere particular individual: it has as its object and content this specific individual belonging to the family, takes him as a universal being, divested of his sensuous, or particular reality. The act no longer concerns the living but the dead, one who has passed through the long sequence of his broken and diversified existence and gathered up his being into its one completed embodiment, who has lifted himself out of the unrest of a life of chance and change into the peace of simple universality.
Orduan, odoleko ahaideen existentzia osoa besarkatzen duen eta hori (ez hiritarra, zeren hori ez baita familiakoa, eta ezta hiritar bihurtu eta banako-den hori izateari utzi behar diona ere, baizik eta familiako banako-den hori) sentipenezko, hau da, banako errealitatetik askatutako zerizan orokor bat bezala bere objektutzat eta edukitzat duen ekintza ez dagokio jadanik bizidunari, baizik eta hildakoari, zeina sakabanatutako hor-izatearen segida luzetik tankeratze osatu Batean biltzen den eta ausazko bizitzaren urduritasunetik orokortasun sinplearen lasaitasunera igotzen den.