fHE RURAL SOCRATES, 6^ 



*< (concluded my friend ;) remain fleady to your prin- 

 <« ciplcs, they cannot fail to be attended with the moit 

 *^ happy conlcqacnces. Heaven will crown your per* 

 ** feverance with a bieding, and you will beh'old peace, 

 '^concord, and affection reign amongft your latcit de- 

 " fcendants/' 



The brother of Kliyogg was laft year (1761) nomi- 

 nated by the village, as maflcr of the fchool kept in it 3 

 an event, which our country philofopher regarded as 

 fortunate. He conceived an imnjediate hope of feci ng^^ 

 his principles reduced to a more extended pratlice ; ana 

 of communicating to his countrymen a (hare of that fc-* 

 llcity which he himfelf enjoyed, ever flnce the introduc-^ 

 tion of good order in his domeflic affairs. He came to 

 participate his joy with me. — '' Sir, (fays he) I am in 

 *' a^lual poffeilion of a fpecies of authority, which will add 

 ^* weight to my remonftrances. You cannot think what 

 ** influence authority has in promoting public good, if 

 *^ properly exercifsd.— My firfl attempt (hail, be on the 

 *' children, which will be attacking the evil at the root 5 

 *' for good feed can never make any progrefs, till the 

 *■ weeds are extirpated. This operation is eafy before 

 *Vthey have acquired firm hold. L would fooner un^ 

 *^ dertake to educate a dozen children, than attempt to 

 *' communicate my principles to a (ingle grown perfon. 

 '* Habit teaches men to regard as a treafure, the vice 

 ^' they have been long attached to ; and , to treat as a 

 *> dangerous innovator, him. who. ventures to attack 

 *' eflablilhed cuftoms, however pernicious." 



^.Kliyogg left to his brother the care of inflruding the 



children, and purfued himlelf the more indcfatigably^ 



I the ' 



Thofe wlio are dcfirous of more public and csore geceral exaniples, mzy 

 fi«(i them in Jofephus's account of ihc Efleoea ; a people, whofe tenor of 

 life naay throw (ome probability on che opinion of Kliyogg,— Sec alfo i^ 

 t^e fcquel, the Marqois tie Mirabeau's firft Letter ; and th^ accounts iiktK\' 

 from the Count dc Treffan and the Journal (Xcpn^oai^^jce, 'i\ 



