Another quote that states that same statement is, "We have no princes, for whom we toil, starve, and bleed; we are the most perfect society now existing in the world. ... He describes those that settled more towards the middle settlements as "by far the most numerous, must be very different; the simple cultivation of the earth purifies them, both the indulgences of the government, the soft remonstrances of religion, the rank of independent freeholders, must necessarily inspire them with sentiments very little known in Europe among people of the same class." ...

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