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^ tics ; that their patrimony greatly fuffered by it ; and 



* that tie had great trouble to recover them from their 



* millake, and to convince them that labor is our firfl 



* duty and the bed means of obtaining the blefling of 



* the Creator ; and that books are for the learned, and 

 ' the plough for the p^:^r?int. Fanaticijm in religion^ 

 ^ he continued, ?>lvv'ay.i does the peafant harm ; troubles 



* his reafon a jd confcience ; and takes away much of 



* the time which ought only to be confecrated to work^ 

 *- Often the party expofes himfelf to the tricks of cth- 

 ^ ers ; and iofiietimes he is led into a melancholy h#bit 

 ^ of mind and ends by forgetting his true deftination as 



p. 255 — 256. Difcourfe like this, clofed our phi- 

 lofopher's dinner. We rofe to vifit the reft of Kli- 

 Togg's farm. And we certainly found parts which had 

 not yet attained the perfection of which they were ca- 

 pable ; and particularly the orchard, which iurrounded 

 the houfe : but it is difficult for a peal ant to do all at 

 once, particularly where he is obliged to execute the 

 principal things himfelf and finds trouble in procuring 

 proper workmen to aflift him ; which is the cafe with 

 our Kliyogg. It is indefatigable labor only, directed, 

 upon a foiid and fteady plan, which can conquer all 

 difficulties. 



p. 256 — 258. But in fpite of fome imperfecllons of 

 the orchard, I with much plcafure law pains tak- 

 en lo colled the rain-water^ falling from the houfc 

 and barn, into a refervoir in the court ; and to mix it 

 afterwards with the filth from the flables.- — Kliydgg 

 had dug a pit four feet deep and as many wide, the 

 door of which he could clofe and open at pleafure. 

 When he difcovered that the mixture had become fuf- 

 £ciently putrid, he ftirred it all through ; and carried 

 it, by means of little canals, upon a neighoring mea- 

 dow. At the bottom of this meadow, was placed anoth- 

 er refervoir, which colk<5led the remains of this wa-^ 



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