THE RURAL SOCRATES. ijf 



:tave eftabliilied this latter opinion by feme Higlit chan- 

 ges ; — but I made a point of not leflening the vahie of 

 the book to the firfl purchafers ; and have invai iably 

 perlided in not changing the leafl fentcnce in vvoiks 

 once piiblifliedj but to do what v/as requifite by way 

 of appendix. 



The latter feems to be vvlnt you intend, inflead of 

 inferting notes in the work itfelf. — I (hould be glad ifthc 

 letter I didmyfelf the honor to addrefs to you, and which 

 you are defirous of printing in the fupplement, could be 

 of any weight or utiilty. Such as it is, Sir, you are 

 to condder it as your own 2)roperty-, not mine. — I have 

 felt it my dut}'-, and I ought to adhere to it, never to 

 print any thing for the future ; but it would give me 

 fatisfadion to write any thing for the benerit of man- 

 kind ; and that fo wortjiy a trullee as yourfelf fiiould 

 fiamp a value upon it., which it certainly did not pofTefs 

 when it quitted my hands. 



[n. e. M. de Mirabeau here proceeds again to fpeak 

 of the family of Pincous or Pignous in Auvergne ; 

 whofe exiPcence be confijuis. After feme remarks on 

 the fubjecl:, he refumes his parallel betvveen oxen and 

 Iiorfes ; a pirellel which Mr. Arthur Young pronoun- 

 ces unfatisfac^ory ; afferting from his own ^' attentive 

 " experience, that two oxen are maintained mncl^i 

 ^' cheaper tlian "two horfes, and w ill do equal w^ork.*' 



The following extracts only thexefore aie added 

 from the conchifion of the letter.] 



I am yet of opinion that ic would not be of advantage 

 ':o Kliyogg to ufe horfes upon a fmall farm.*** Thur» 

 the refult of all our rcafoning Ml is, that the Rural So- 

 crates according to the circumftances of his fituation its 

 an excellent farmer and a very praife-worthy citizen. 



*** Agricultural queflions however arc of the 

 greateil: confequence to the profperity of a (late 5 and 

 ofcourfe to the multiplication and happinefs of the hu- 

 m-in i'pecies. Experiment and calculation are the grand 

 iiails of true agricultural (cieiicc ; a fcicnce of which the 



