With his natural kind heart he of course liked human beings more than he disliked them, and naturally the peasants were included; but he could not like or dislike the people as if they were something apart, because he not only lived among them, his interests closely bound up with theirs, but he considered himself one of the people and could not find in himself any special qualities or defects which placed him in contrast with them.
Istintivamente di animo buono, era più incline ad amare anziché a non amare gli uomini, e così pure quella gente. Ma amarla o non amarla come qualcosa a sé, non poteva, perché non solo viveva con essa, non solo tutti i suoi interessi erano con essa collegati, ma riteneva di farne parte egli stesso, e non vedeva fra se stesso e quella gente nessuna differenza positiva o negativa, e perciò non poteva contrapporsi ad essa.