Nay, even the agricultural labourer, who formerly used to find a relief from the hardships of his life in the home of his ancestors--the future home of his children--in his love of the field and in a keen intercourse with nature, even he has been doomed to disappear for the sake of division of labour.
He reflects on the loss of connection to nature experienced by agricultural laborers due to the division of labor.
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