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Page 120, note 1. Most householders in the country not bred to farming soon learn, as did Mr. Emerson, a more obvious way of applying this counsel (of Bacon's?), Impera parendo, Command by obeying, namely, the learning from the hired man, by questionings veiled as much as possible, what ought to be done,—and then ordering him to do it.
The expression used below, that "things themselves refuse to be mismanaged," comes from one of his favorite Latin proverbs, Res nolunt diu male administrari.