Miquel:
I stole the Catalan passage from the Barcelona edition (1960)
of José Ferrater Mora's essay Les formes de la vida catalana (p. 100).
Thanks for the nice translation. My only comment concerns the English side: I
think the phrase és distingeix per should be rendered as
is distinguished (or characterised) by rather than
is different because of. The latter would be misleading, wouldn't
it?
Piotr