In America I saw the freest and most enlightened men, placed in the happiest circumstances which the world affords: it seemed to me as if a cloud habitually hung upon their brow, and I thought them serious and almost sad even in their pleasures.
eta normalean haien aurpegiak hodei-moduko batek estaltzen zituela iruditu izan zait; serio eta ia triste zeudela iruditu izan zait beren plazeretan ere. Honen arrazoi nagusia zera da: