So that, while he is congratulating himself upon his success, he finds himself again impoverished, but to an extent somewhat smaller than before.

For the rise having been general, the proprietor suffers with the rest; so that the laborers, instead of being poorer by one-tenth, lose only nine-hundredths.

But always it is a debt which necessitates a loan, the payment of interest, economy, and fasting.
Fasting for the nine-hundredths which ought not to be paid, and are paid; fasting for the redemption of debts; fasting to pay the interest on them.

Let the crop fail, and the fasting becomes starvation.

They say, "IT IS NECESSARY TO WORK MORE." That means, obviously, that IT IS NECESSARY TO PRODUCE MORE.