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 mismo vio en los libros socialistas: o eran hermosas e irrealizables fantasías, que ya le sedujeran de estudiante, o simples arreglos y reparaciones del estado de cosas que existía en Europa con el que la cuestión agraria rusa nada tenía de común.