He gave orders to mow the clover for hay, choosing the inferior fields overgrown with grass and hemlock and not fit for seed; and they cut down all the best seed clover, defended themselves by saying that the foreman ordered them to do it, and comforted him with the assurance that he would get splendid hay; while he knew that they had done it simply because that clover was easiest to mow.
Lo más grave era que no sólo se perdía estérilmente la energía empleada en ello, sino que él mismo no podía dejar de reconocer, ahora que el sentido de su obra aparecía claro ante sus ojos, que el fin de sus actividades no era lo suficiente digno. Porque ¿en qué consistía la lucha?