In other words, he was unwilling to treat this as anything but a concrete problem, and he was used to camels being in villages, and he was quite unable to use the hypothetical, to ask himself what if there were no camels in Germany.
En altres paraules, no estava disposat a tractar la pregunta com res que no fos un problema concret, i estava acostumat a que hi hagués camells als pobles, i era bastant incapaç d'utilitzar l'hipotètic, de preguntar-se què passaria si no hi havia camells a Alemanya.