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but you can see certainly
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what he feels like he's seeing as
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compared with what he knows from back in England.
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Or as a member of the Massachusetts legislature put it,
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"Our people were not calculated to be kept in any particular service.
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They soon grow troublesome and uneasy by reflecting upon their
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folly" by--"in bringing themselves into a state of subjection
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when they might have continued free and independent."
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Now that sounds like a sort of wonderful thing,
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impressive, admirable, like 'oh, our people are--
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they like to be independent and if they commit to something,
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they're not happy about that commitment,