Yet these are the very elements which ensure a long and peaceful duration to the republics of America.

Without these unquiet passions the population would collect in certain spots, and would soon be subject to wants like those of the Old World, which it is difficult to satisfy; for such is the present good fortune of the New World, that the vices of its inhabitants are scarcely less favorable to society than their virtues.

These circumstances exercise a great influence on the estimation in which human actions are held in the two hemispheres.

The Americans frequently term what we should call cupidity a laudable industry; and they blame as faint-heartedness what we consider to be the virtue of moderate desires.
In France, simple tastes, orderly manners, domestic affections, and the attachments which men feel to the place of their birth, are looked upon as great guarantees of the tranquillity and happiness of the State.

But in America nothing seems to be more prejudicial to society than these virtues.