In a letter to Peter Collinson in 1753, Benjamin Franklin recounted his meeting with a “Transylvanian Tartar,” actually a Greek Orthodox priest, who had arrived in America in 1748 during a tour around the world. The “Tartar” asked Franklin why he thought the people of so many cultures—Tartars in Asia and Europe, Negroes in Africa, and Indians in the Americas—“continued a wandring [sic] careless Life, and refused to live in Cities, and to cultivate the arts they saw practiced by the civilized part of Mankind.” Before Franklin could respond, the “Tartar” offered his own explanation, beginning at the beginning, with Genesis and God's expulsion of Adam and his progeny from Eden. “God make man for Paradise,” Franklin quoted the “Tartar,” “he make him for to live lazy; man make God angry, God turn him out of Paradise, and bid him work; man no love work; he want to go to Paradise again, he want to live lazy; so all mankind love lazy.”