Note 43 — IV. SOME SOCIAL TRAITS OF TEUTONS
Reading edition
Cf. Franklin’s views on the comparative thrift of English and of German laborers, and note his tentative explanation of the difference. The Complete Works of Benjamin Franklin (compiled and edited by John Bigelow, New York and London, 1887), ii, 291 ff. Letter to Peter Collinson, dated Philadelphia, 9 May, 1753.