I JO THE RUPvAL SOCRATES. 



All the children of Kliyogg as well as thofe of hh 

 brother, have turned out well. — They are all healthy, 

 robuft and laborious; all intelligentjand virtuous. Their 

 occupations have to all, without exception, become real 

 pleafures ; for labor in this family is acceptable merely 

 as labor ; the only queftion being v/ho (hall lurpnTs the 

 other ; and they know no other jealoufy than, the lauda- 

 ble emulation of excelling in their undertakings, wheth- 

 er the obje^Tt confiils in dire£ting or in executing. The 

 tendency to luxury and fenfuality, fo common elfe- 

 where, is here confined within its jafl bounds. — Even 

 the fervants employed under them acquire an increafing 

 attachment to their work ; in which never; helefs they 

 all agree, that they arc furpalTed by their mader and his 

 children. — There is alfo a beautiful order always pre- 

 vailing in this happy family. The Sunday is employed 

 in reading the bible and in finging hymns ; and in dei^- 

 canting upon the blellings of the hulbandman, and the 

 inward peace and content following upon the certainty 

 of enjoying the fruits of their labor. They know the 

 ronfidence with which each may fay tohimfelf — '' This 

 *' is what God has given me in recompenfe for my ex- 

 '*' erlions : Nothing here has cofl the fmallefl figh to 

 '' any of my fellow creatures : I have never taken ad- 

 *' vantage of tlie want of information in any perfon : 

 ■" My fatisfat^ion is therefore built in no refpeifl upon 

 ** the fufferings of others." 



When the occafion offers for fpeaking of luxury and 

 the ordinai-y diverfions of the young people of the vil- 

 lage, w^ho are fcarcely acquainted with any thing elfe 

 befides the tavern ; Kliyogg fliews to his children how 

 ienfelefs are fuch amufements.^ He gives a crowd of 

 examples within his own obfervation, of perfons whom 

 this bad habit has by degrees turned from their occupa- 

 tions ; from whence have arifen family derangements, 

 which he has detailed, befides a multiplicity of debts ; 

 followed by the moft cruel anxieties, and by over- reach- 

 ing and bad faith, as the only means left for ]>rocuring 



fubiidence ; 



