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.
Cierto que, por su bondad natural, más tendía a querer que a no querer a los hombres, incluyendo a los de clase humilde. Pero amar o no a éstos como a algo particular no le era posible, porque no sólo vivía con el pueblo, no sólo sus intereses le eran comunes, sino que se consideraba a sí mismo como una parte del pueblo y ni en sí mismo ni en ellos veía defectos o cualidades particulares, y no podía oponerse al pueblo.