g2 THE KU^AL SOCRATES. 



vahiflies ; and a mean, ferviie condudl is the only metV 

 cd employed to obtain fjcccfs* 



asSSBE 



SECTION III. 



Qif th& Projeds for the advancement of Agriculture^ fff- 

 uukich Kliyogg gaverije in the canton of Zurich. 



THE following* is an account of what pafTcd at a 

 meeting of peafants at Zurich, chofen from the beft far- 

 mers of the canton, in confequence of an invitation' 

 from the Philoiophical Society. I endeavor to catch 

 every particular of the life of our good Kliyogg, which 

 tends to iiiflriicEl: and interefl ; though I fear that the 

 more this v/orthy man mixes in our city, and the mere 

 he frequents' a certain flile of company, the more diffi- 

 cult will it be to difliflgnidi in him what is his ovrn^ 

 from what is borrowed. What feems hitherto mofc to 

 have diilinguifhed our country philofopher, is his riiiug 

 Xjb the fublicic heights of philofophy, by the folc force 

 of his own genius and re fie dl ion ; unaflifted by books or 

 the converfatitm of the learned. 



My defcriptionsof Kliyogg had put the finiQiingRrokc 

 in Zurich, to the intcrell taken in his characSler. Every 

 «ne now wifhed to fee him, and to hear him converfe : 

 fome, becaufe they felt warmly in his favor ; and oth- 

 ers, from the hope of an opportunity of being able to de- 

 tc£l errors in my relation concerning him. The lafb 

 could neither comprehend nor rclifh the fa6l, that a 

 fimplc villager fhould be wifcr and better informed, 

 than many of our magiflratcs, clergy, men of letters, 

 and wealthy merchants. They maintained with vclie- 

 mcnce every where, that fuck a charaifler could not ex- 

 ift. The 



* The firft part of this fc6iion 13 cxtraf^ed from a lelter written by 

 Dr. Hirzrl to the French tranflatuFy Auguft i, 176,3 ;.for the purpofe of 

 bciflg iafsricd in the Sijpplemect to the fecrtnd Frerich, edjilcn af the Rn- 

 ral Socrates t Et 



