The French, by contrast, faced a future in which “it is difficult to foresee to what pitch of stupid excesses their egotism may lead them,” and “into what disgrace and wretchedness they would plunge themselves, lest they should have to sacrifice something of their own well-being to the prosperity of their fellow-creatures.”
Los franceses, en cambio, ante un futuro en el que “es difícil pronosticar a qué tono de estúpidos excesos su egotismo puede llevarlos”, y “en qué desgracia y miseria se sumergirán para no tener que sacrificar algo de su propio bienestar por la prosperidad de sus semejantes”.