"He was amazed, how so impotent and grovelling an insect as I" (these were his expressions) "could entertain such inhuman ideas, and in so familiar a manner, as to appear wholly unmoved at all the scenes of blood and desolation which I had painted as the common effects of those destructive machines; whereof," he said, "some evil genius, enemy to mankind, must have been the first contriver.
Ezin zuen ulertu nola ni bezalako intsektu ezgauza eta doilorrak (hitz hauexek erabili zituen) hain ideia ankerrak izan zitzakeen eta nolako arruntasunez mintza zitekeen nik neuk makina birrintzaileon ondorio ohikotzat azaldu nizkion odol-eta hondamen-eszena guztien aurrean batere hunkitugabe agertuz; eta makina hauen lehen asmatzailea gizateriaren etsai zen jenio maltzurren bat izango zela esan zuen.