In the Italian dialogues the personal note of complaint sounds more highly than in Bruno's other works, and we may imagine that Bruno himself felt neglected in England more than in other countries, while English hostility to his teaching was probably more contemptuous, therefore more galling and more difficult to overcome. He might repeat as he did, the bold saying that "to the true philosopher every country is fatherland," or call himself with Socrates a citizen of the world; but a touch of despair sounds through the words:--"a citizen and servant of the world, son of Father Sol and Mother Earth; because he loves the world too much, he must be hated, cursed, persecuted, and rejected by it. Meanwhile let him not be idle, nor ill-occupied while awaiting death, transmigration, change."[75] Elsewhere there is almost a savage stoicism; he cries that he is attacked not by one but by many, almost by all, and the reason is that he hates the people, cares not for the multitude, adores one thing only:--"That through which he in subjection is free, in pain content, in necessity rich, in death living, and through which he envies not those who in freedom are slaves, in pleasure pained, in riches poor, in life dead, because in the body they have a chain that binds them, in the spirit an _inferno_ that depresses them, in the soul error that weakens them, and in the mind lethargy that slays, etc."[76] Yet the climate of England seems to have pleased Bruno: "there more than in any other region the climate is temperate; for the excessive rigour of the snows is driven out by the earth beneath, and the superfluous fervour of the sun blesses it with a continuous, a perpetual spring, as is testified by the ever green and flowery land."[77] From the _Spaccio_, it appears that he was struck in England, _inter alia_, with the multitude of crows, the richness of the sheep and the sleekness of the cattle, the stern game-laws, and the land-hunger of the people.[78] IX [Sidenote: Return to France, October 1585.]