Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.
It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.