“I am a close neighbor of yours, my good friends⁠—you’ve known me on the bench a good while⁠—I’ve always gone a good deal into public questions⁠—machinery, now, and machine-breaking⁠—you’re many of you concerned with machinery, and I’ve been going into that lately. It won’t do, you know, breaking machines: everything must go on⁠—trade, manufactures, commerce, interchange of staples⁠—that kind of thing⁠—since Adam Smith, that must go on. We must look all over the globe:⁠—‘Observation with extensive view,’ must look everywhere, ‘from China to Peru,’ as somebody says⁠—Johnson, I think, The Rambler , you know. That is what I have done up to a certain point⁠—not as far as Peru; but I’ve not always stayed at home⁠—I saw it wouldn’t do. I’ve been in the Levant, where some of your Middlemarch goods go⁠—and then, again, in the Baltic. The Baltic, now.”