It was the same with the socialistic books: they were either beautiful but inapplicable fancies which had carried him away when he was still at the university or they were improvements and patchings-up of the order existing in Europe, with which agricultural affairs in Russia have nothing in common.
Lo stesso vide anche nei libri sul socialismo; o erano bellissime fantasie, ma inattuabili, alle quali si era appassionato quando era ancora studente, o erano correzioni, revisioni di uno stato di cose in cui si era venuta a trovare l’Europa e con il quale l’agricoltura non aveva nulla in comune.