^oar THE RURAL SOCRATES. 



* The fupcriority of the moral charafter, as feen ijp- 



* on many retired farms in Switzerland, where Cimpld 



* manners are preferved fome centuries longer than in 



* our villages ; is a confirmation that the ideas of Kli- 



* yogg refpecTting the union of families, are of the high- 



* eft importance. — It is true, that the difficult in- 



* tercourfe between thefe detached farms, renders mar- 

 ^ riage Ibmewhat lefs eafy, than in villages ; but 



* Kliyogg was no friend to that over-done population, 



* which is fcen in fome parts of our canton. 



' Kliyogg maintained that the innocence of the fexes' 

 ^ ought to be preferved longer than is cuftomary ; that 



* is to fay, their ignorance of this clafs of gratifications : 

 '- and he maintained that there is no difficulty in ef- 



* feeling this, by preventing the young from going to bed 



* till they are well fatigued. He affirmed that the paf- 



* fion for premature enjoyment is not natural to man ; 



* but owes its rife to the corruptions of fociety. He 

 ^ faid, that nature is content to poflpone thefe feelings? 



* for a longtime, but that defires are commonly exci- 

 *" ted by the folly of idle company. — His fyflem war? 



* partly the fame for the defires and paflions of the un- 



* derftanding. He thought that they ought not to be 

 ^ awakened too early, and before the mind is fufiicient- 



* iy matured to content them. — **^' Our Kliyogg in 



* fhort was firmly cbnvinced, that men fhould be 



* brought to a difcreet enjoymer.t of life by a courie 



* of voluntary a<Slivity and exertion ; and he conceived 



* that our prefent inftitutlons of police, of education and 

 '' of religion, were little adapted to the leading circum- 



* fiances of common life, 



^ Perhaps I have too flrongly expreiTed my fenfe of 

 ^ Kliyogg's fupcriority as a man; but I am lure that he 

 *- fell (hort in his charadl'er of a cultivator. — His fixed 

 ^ principle to do 



' as much as pofTible by woi k^ 



' as little as poflible by money ; 



' as much as poftible by the labor of his family, and 



•^as little as pofTible by hired hands ;• ' all 



