Note DK — LETTER XXVII.
T. G. (Thomas Gamaliel) Bradford translation
The Neapolitans are said to have made the following objection to a company, which proposed to run a steamboat between their city and Sicily: "Your boat takes us over in one day, and yet you demand the same fare, as a sail vessel which is three days. That is absurd; how can you expect that we will pay as much for being found one day as for three?" This is the reasoning of a people, who have no idea of setting an economical value on time.