ii3 THE KUKAL .SOCRATES. 



a ftrong itnpreflion upon the hi^arts of all pr^Ient : 

 .-*' WichouC doubt, it: is more difficult to do good in your 

 ^' fituation, than for a fabje«5i: ; for when we fall into 

 *' error or a^St contrary to juftice, you are at hand to fet 

 *' us right or to punilh us ; but when perfons in your 

 *' fphere do wrong, you have no fuperior to do the 

 ^' fame to you ; you are abandoned to yourfelves 

 .*' and to your confciences, and alas ! how difficult is it 

 *^ for us to govern ourfelves/*— -The prince anfwered 

 no otherwife than by fhewing a lilcnt admiration, which 

 ipread itfelf over the v/hole company ; who were ftruck 

 to liear fuch important truths delivered with fuch frank- 

 nefs and noble fimplicity by a peafant. — The prince 

 iiDw putting his arm into that of Kliyogg, led him into 

 his own apartment to converfe with'him in private. 



During all this time f had continued fllently to ob- 

 ferve the countenances of thefc tv/o a^^ors. I faw with 

 the deepefl: fenHitions, how two fouls, each fo noble, 

 palled one into the other ; I admired in them, m'an in 

 all his grandeur : the pri»nce and the peafant alike dit 

 appeared ; I perceived only two of the mod excellent 

 of men, born to love one another : and i had the happi- 

 nefs to feel that I myfelf was beloved by them both. 



The whole of the afternoon and a great part of the 

 day following, Kliyogg was the obje<9: of the moft curi- 

 ous attention of all the members of the Society who 

 were prefent. He v/as quedioned much about his agri- 

 culture, his manner of educating his children, and his 

 leligious principles ; and he anfwered thcfe queftions 

 with a noble freedom, whicli gained him more and more 

 the affections of his auditory, and cfpecially that of his 

 iilluflrious friend. — As formyfelf, I fometimes kept at a 

 diftance, to give thofe who had hitherto known Kliyogg 

 bymy defcriptiononly, the full means of examining him; 

 and when I approached afterwards to hear the opinions 

 that were given, I received at^fird many flattering com- 

 pliments on the fubjedl of my philofopher ; my hero 

 being thought happy in having fo good an hiftorian.— • 



Many 



