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2884. FARMERS, As citizens.—[further continued].

The proportion which the aggregate of the other classes of citizens bears
in any State to that of its husbandmen, is,
generally speaking, the proportion of its unsound
to its healthy parts, and is a good
enough barometer whereby to measure its
degree of corruption.—
Notes on Virginia. Washington ed. viii, 405. Ford ed., iii, 269.
(1782)