THE RURAL SOCRATES, 



* along, aflidaity to attention, and order to exachicfs ;; 



* rendered their taflc eafier and Ihorter, and irifinitely 

 ^ more lucrative. Whoever will iKidy in the fchool of 

 ^ the latter, will increale his fortune with conilant fa- 

 ' tisfadion to kimjclj and in cbfiaiice oj every thingJ^ 



I had the good fortune to meet with one of the char- 

 acters which Socrates thus defcribes, in the perfon of 

 yames Gouyer ; a native of Wermetfchweil, in the pa- 

 rifh of Uiter'r. He was pointed out tome by M.Vcequeli. 



James Gouyer prefented to my admiring eye, the moH; 

 exalted faculties of the human m/md, in a (late of noble 

 and interefling fiinplicity ; void of pretenfion and 

 ofcentation, and inch in fhort as they come out of the 

 hands of nature. The circumflantialdefciiption which 

 I have colled:ed of his management, comprifes,-' in my 

 opinion, every thing which, upon the plan of Socrates, 

 is moft important to be known for the improvement of 

 hulbandry. Happy (hall I be, if my efforts can excite a 

 correfponding emulation among our farmers ! The jull 

 praife bellowed on the man whom I have felevTted for a 

 model, and the honors paid to his fmgular talents, may 

 at lead: aifure them, that whenever they fulfil the duties 

 oftheii' flation with intelligence and affiduity ; like him 

 they will obtain the bledings of Providence, with the 

 univerfal approbation and eilecm of mankind. 



The extraordinary perlbn who is the fubjecH: of the 

 following work, will be called in it Kliyogg (or Utile 

 y allies f) the only appellation by which he has been 

 known in his own country. — Every thing refpecfHn^ 

 him, to the leafl: perceptible trace of his chaiacfler, offers 

 a portrait, the combirration of whofc parts is ^o admira- 



ble. 



* Th\s pafTogc xs tranfiatcJ from the French tranfl.nlon ; tlic oiiglnaj 

 of it not being found as yet in the works of Xenophon, though othfr fsfli- 

 gcs cited by Dr. Hirzel have been difcovereii there. E. 



^■- Ufter lies in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland, E. 



