8508. TRAVEL, Philanthropy and.—[further continued].
The politics of each
country [is] well worth studying so far as
respects internal affairs. Examine its influence
on the happiness of the people. Take every
possible occasion for entering into the houses of
the laborers, and especially at the moments of
their repast; see what they eat, how they are
clothed, whether they are obliged to work too
hard; whether the government or their landlord
takes from them an unjust proportion of
their labor; on what footing stands the property
they call their own, their personal liberty,
&c., &c.—
Travelling Hints. Washington ed. ix, 405.
(1788)
