Title page from Travels in the North of Germany, vol. 1

Part of: Travels in the North of Germany, 2 vols. Travels in the North of Germany, vol. 1

Vol. I of a two volume work in which Hodgskin describes in great detail the economic, political, legal, and social conditions he observed in his travels across northern Germany.

Key Quotes

Taxation

The pressure of governments on subjects is at present so exclusively felt through taxes, that these latter are always sure to be complained of. At present, also, men complain more than before. The pressure they labour under is augmented, while the hope they had formed of its being decreased has…