Though he is advising the parliamentarians, Gould's lines refer equally to himself. "Submission to the inevitable" is the acceptance of life as a ceaseless futile combat, while the "whole extent" of his own "surrender" is his abandonment of saving idealism. As he has resolved to go on using his wealth without it, in the amoral fashion of a buccaneer, there is no need for him to "exhibit pointedly" his change. Translated, his line means something like, "Life may be an amoral power struggle, but if our opponent in that struggle is Pedro Montero, we have every chance of winning."