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id by the properties over which he pafTes. If he finds 

 a traveller, he enters into converfation with him ; 

 which, as he never goes out of his province, always 

 turns upon the improvement of agriculture, and the 

 benefit to arife from it to every country which makes 

 it a ferious objecl. 



The tendency of the prefent query leads me to con* 

 jedlure, that it is conceived, that Kliyogg, after a man- 

 ner of his own, gives into metap.hylical refieiTtions ; or 

 at lead into general obfervations relative to natural 

 philofophy. 



This opinion requires corre^ion. Kliyogg is Co dcf- 

 titute of what is called fcience, that whenever he is 

 • queffcioned upon objcv^s which do not r€(pe<3: his pro- 

 feflion, or the civil relations in w^hich he ilands placed 

 ^s a member of fociety, he anfwers, I underfland noth- 

 ing of thele things. But in return, he conceives that 

 all thofe v/ho are not huibanduaen by profefTion, can- 

 not be thoroughly acquainted v/ith the fubjecft with 

 which he himfelf is occupied ; fo that it ofiens happens 

 in the heat of converfation, that he fays, '' you un- 

 '^ derdand nothing of this, and I will explain it to you.'' 

 — He is himfeif then an example how little wifdom is 

 dependent upon learning. It mufl not be expeftrd, there- 

 fore, that I can have much to fay re{j^e<n:ing his difcov- 

 cries v/ith regard to religion, either natural or revealed- 



His theology is very brief ; and this isthe fum of it. — 

 " Fulfil with fidelity and affiduity all the duties ?.x\di lar 

 ^^ bors impoled upon you by your profedion in lifco 

 '' Do always what your confcience directs in the mo- 

 '' ments when you confult it. Look for no other blef^ 

 *' fing from Providence, than that which belongs to con- 

 *• fiderate and continual exertions. Beware of eating 

 *' any bread befidcs that, which you haVe earned v/ith 

 ^^ your own hands. Act towards others as you wifh 

 ^'' they (hould a6l towards you, that you may be able to 

 ;',' allure yourfelf that youare beloved of God, and maOo 



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