illE RURAL SOCRATES, i^l 



SECTION m. 



Particulars concerjiing the additional Farm of Kliyognrl 

 Farther j^ccoimts rejpeding his Fatnily. His Bcfm^ 

 viour at ihelVedding of his Jecond Son, 



JULY 2 2, 1774.—- ^^'y^gg ^^^^ lives* 5 and though 

 a fenfible change has occurred in his favor, he hinifelf is 

 always the fame. He not only cultivates his own pro- 

 perty after the principles he originally l:iid dovi^n, but 

 another much more confiderabie, at four leagues 

 diilance from the former. — His paternal property by 

 bis conPcant improvements had continually inci^afed in 

 value, and he had neglcdted no occafion to add to its 

 limits. But additions to it had become every day more 

 difficult. His example had created a blaze of emula- 

 tion in his neighborhood ; where his manner of cultiva- 

 tion was begun to be pradifed, the fuccefs of it having 

 been fo manifefl. From hence aroie eafe, and an at- 

 tachment of the proprietor to his foil ; which rendered 

 the fales of land lefs frequent, as well as ccnfiderably 

 raifed its price. — This led Kliyogg to think of renting a 

 farm of a certain extent ; and it h2ppe*"ied fr)rtunately 

 that one of this nature became vacant exaftly in the 

 neighborhood of Zurich. — His predecelTors in it had 

 followed ma:\ims diametrically oppofite to his own* 

 Naturally idle, it appeaired to them peculiarly irkfome 

 to improve a property" which wgs not their own and 

 which belonged even to a corporate body t fothat tliefe 

 fenfelefs people were anxious to obtain the produce of 

 the farm with the lead: poffible trouble. The efFe£i: of 

 thefe fine reafonings was, tliat the farm became every 

 year worfe ; and that its produce diminiOied to 

 fuch a degree, that their arable land, taxes Included p 



fcarcely 



* This f^aion is extraded from a letter wntteo by Dr. HirSsel so %h.t 



