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The Jeffersonian cyclopedia;

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6562. PEOPLE, Cities and.—

When the
people get piled upon one another in large
cities, as in Europe, they will become corrupt
as in Europe. [382]
To James Madison. Washington ed. ii, 332. Ford ed., iv, 479.
(P. 1787)

 
[382]

In the Congress edition “When we get piled
upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we
shall become as corrupt as in Europe, and go to eating
one another as they do there.”—Editor.