All its individual and social woes are born of its passion for work. Their smooth skin of a light copper tint, their hair golden and curly, their beautiful and happy faces, in a word. The civilized men of ancient Rome, witness Caesar and Tacitus, regarded with the same admiration the Germans of the communist tribes which invaded the Roman empire. The oppressed fly to the barbarians to seek for mercy and a shelter. The old civilization and the rising Christianity corrupted the barbarians of the ancient world, as the old Christianity and the modern capitalist civilization are corrupting the savages of the new world.
Agriculture is in fact the first example of servile labor in the history of man.
According to biblical tradition, the first criminal, Cain, is a farmer.