But now he clearly saw (the book on agriculture which he was writing, in which the labourer was the chief factor in farming, helped much in this direction) that the agricultural work he was carrying on was founded on a bitter and obstinate struggle between himself and his labourers, in which on the one side – his – there was a continual and strenuous attempt to bring everything into accord with what were considered the best models, while on the other side there was the natural order of things.
Ma egli ora vedeva chiaramente (il suo studio per un volume di economia rurale nel quale era proclamato come elemento essenziale in tale economia l’elemento lavoratore, lo aveva molto aiutato in questo) che l’azienda che egli conduceva rappresentava soltanto una crudele e ostinata lotta tra lui e i lavoratori, nella quale da una parte, la sua, c’era un’incessante, intensa aspirazione a rifare tutto su di un modello ritenuto il migliore, dall’altra, invece, c’era l’ordine naturale delle cose.