The main difference is that it has become all too easy “to foresee to what pitch of stupid excesses their egotism may lead them” and “into what disgrace and wretchedness they would plunge themselves.”
La principal diferencia es que se ha tornado demasiado fácil “pronosticar a qué tono de estúpidos excesos su egotismo puede llevarlos” y “en qué desgracia y miseria se sumergirán”.