54 THE RUP^AL SOCRATES, 



ings, or country wakes. — It appeared to him abfolutely 

 incoiifiitent with reafon to allow the boi\y more nourifti* 

 jneiit on days of relaxation, than on days of labor jvvhcn 

 the rtrength,exhau(led by painful toil, has much more oc- 

 csiion to be recruited. He therefore regulates the food 

 sccoiding to the nature of the work ; and prepares iii$ 

 laborers doc to expe(5t any extraordinary feaft at the 

 end of harvefL^^ — '*■ This is not the eife£l: of coveioaf- 

 '^ nefs, (ne lays to thern) for I (Ijail fpiend the fame mo-, 

 ** ney that others do ; but it (haU be in maintaining you 

 ^* better every day when your work is mofl fatiguing.'' 



Kliyogg drinks no wine at meals ; but carries his pint 

 with him into tite fields ; and ufes it as a reftorative, 

 >cvhen he finds himieif fiaking \inder the burthen of la* 



J)or, 



He fattens /^«?^j" for the iife^ofhis family, like other 

 farmers ; yet pork is never a (eparate didi at his table $ 

 ijut a certain quantity of bacon is dreffed daily, cut in 

 fmall pieces, and mixed with iome kind of vegetable : 

 this, he finds, renders the vegetable a more ir.vigorat- 

 :ng diet. — He is of opinion that food of thehardcft di- 

 gefrion, affords the greatefl: degree of nourifhment. For 

 this reafon he gives potatoes the preference over other 

 roots, and 'rye bread over wheat. — This convi<n:ion he 

 draws from his own experience ; in which he cannot ea- 

 iilv be miftaken, as he labors inceiTantly in an equal de- 

 cree ; and has condantly oblerved that his ftrength is 

 much (boner exhaufled when he feeds on delicate meats^ 

 irhan on thofe which are grofs and more difficult to di- 

 rcd. •• ^ ■ ■ ^ . . 



But the fird and unofl material obje^l of his care is, 



^:je educafion of his childreii ; which he rationally confi- 



krs as the mod iacrcd of all duties. He regards them 



-^3 fomany pledges intruded to him by the Divinity, /i7r 



' ' - - •' - > - ^'■ f nooth the road that leads to true happinefs ; 



convinced 



