"The size, beauty and shape of the plant depend on the soil in which it is rooted; and the animal will be big or small, tame or wild, beautiful or ugly, according to the circumstances in which it grew up; and the intestinal worm will be different, according as it enters the interior of one or another animal; man, physically as well as spiritually, is nothing more than the product of such external circumstances, influences and events, as a result of which he cannot become the spiritually independent, freely self-determining being that the philosophers imagine him to be without any basis.
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Mentovich FerencAll Translations
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The size, beauty and shape of the plant depend on the soil in which it is rooted; and the animal will be big or small, tame or wild, beautiful or ugly, according to the circumstances in which it grew up; and the intestinal worm will be different, according as it enters the interior of one or another animal; man, physically as well as spiritually, is nothing more than the product of such external circumstances, influences and events, as a result of which he cannot become the spiritually independent, freely self-determining being that the philosophers imagine him to be without any basis.
""A növény nagysága, szépsége, alakja azon földtől függ, melyben gyökerezik; valamint az állat azon körülmények szerint lesz nagygyá vagy kicsinynyé, szelíddé vagy vaddá, széppé vagy rúttá, melyek közt fölnevekedett; valamint a bélféreg különböző lesz, a szerint, a mint egyik vagy másik állat belsejébe kerül; épen ugy az ember is - testileg ugy, mint szellemileg - nem egyéb, mint az ily külső körülmények, hatások és történetességek productuma, minek folytán nem válhatik azon szellemileg független, magát szabadon elhatározni tudó lénynyé, milyennek őt minden alap nélkül a philosophusok képzelik."