U6 XHe RURAL SOCRATES. 



^•' as the ordinary produdlions which we aheady poiTcfso 

 *^ 1 have neverthelefs (he added) feen fome perfons who 

 f have devoted ail their care and their befl manure to 

 *' thefe new articles, while they have neglected every thing 

 •^^ elle upon their farms/' — The converfation afterwards . 

 jturned upon the cultivation of madder, with which Kli- 

 yogg was wholly unacquainted ; bqt, when he . learned 

 that it injured other articles of culture, it foon ceafed to 

 excite his curiohty. ''*■ Our vines, (faid he fmiling,) 

 J"' for which we have fo much ^ffedion, do injury 

 *' enough in this way ; our poor fields and meadows 

 f' beipg left to janient the want of that manure,, which 

 ^^ we give wholly to the juicfs of the grape." ^ 

 '' It was in the midll of difcourfe of this kind, that v^e 

 found ourfplvjLJS near the entrance of the houfe at the 

 baths, i^rince Louis Kugene of Wirtemberg had al- 

 ready come out with all the members of the Society, to 

 receive our country philofopher. I took Kliyogg by 

 the hand to condudi: him towards the prince, whole firft 

 meafurc v/as to embrace hini with i^nuch emotion ; fay- 

 ing, '^I have great joy Kliyogg in feeing you, after all 

 ''^ the good I have heard of you.''— '^ And I alfo, my 

 '^^ prince, am glad to fee you, (anfv^ercd the villager, 

 ^' with the mod marked fatisfadlon paipted in « his 

 ** eyes :) How charming is it, when great perfons lik^ 

 ^' you, have condefccnfion for us poor peafants !'' — '» It 

 '^ is no condefcenfion in your caje, replied the generous 

 *' prince ; fori feekto raife myfelf to your flandard, 

 ^' fince you are more elevated than I am;*' and her^ 

 the eyes of our philanthropic prince gliftened with tears. 

 — Kiiyogg, was for a moment di (concerted ; but foon 

 recovering himfelf, he faid, '^ We are both good, if 

 ^^ each of us does what he ought to do. You princes 

 *' and great men fhould tell us what ought to be done 

 *"'' and the manner of doing it ; i'ov you have leifure to 

 ''^ examine and wcigii well what is mofl uleful to a 

 *' country : and it afterwards belongs to us peafants, lo 

 /^^ pbcy, and to work with zeal and integrity ; and thus 



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