THE RURAL SOCRATES. 2©2 



^ ail this was worthy of a great legiflator [who has 

 ^ things at his command.]-— But with a nation whole 

 ' turn is become contracted by the practice of counting, 

 ' meafuring, and weighing ; and which, on account of 



* its clofe population, the high price of its land, and the 



* mortgages with which it is burthened, cannot fubfifl: 

 ^ without counting, meafuring and v/eighing ; with 

 ^ fuch a nation, the principle cannot apply. Where 

 ^ the peafant is obliged to pay a high intereft, and where 



* he commonly obtains the means of paying it by fpin - 

 ^ ning ; and where the farms are generally thrown into 

 ^ divifions (or fields) of one eighth of an acre each ; 



* there the farmer can rarely keep as many hands all the ^ 

 ' year round, as he will want at particular moments.; 



' or fail to conHder a return in caft, as the great ob- 



* jed of his labors. — Thefe however are circumilances 



* to which Kiiyogg paid little attention ; for which 



* reafbn he cannot be exhibited as a model for the culti- 



* vators of Zurich, where (I repeat) many in this view 



* have exceeded him.'* . 



* Tke njoriter of this eriicht though ingenhnst ^vjs not a farmer ; and 

 .Jje 'vie'Txed his fubje^ part ia!!y, — Manj of Khjogg s farming maxims op- 

 plj even in Zurich : fuch as that a farmer Jhould fet the example of nxiork" 

 ing ; that he Jhould go to nvork the fkorfef ^way ; and that he Jhoiild ne<ver 

 defpair. Many farming praBkes are alfo equally admijjihie in Zurich, 

 ivhich Kiiyogg had the merit of firfi exhibit} ft g there ; fuch as that of mix- 

 i»o topeiher foils rtmarkahU merely for differing from eech other^ that of 

 chtaining the ad'vantage deri'ved Jrom furroivs in moiji land ixithout the iofs 

 cf any landy and that of deriving manure from the trees in cur n.voods. — 

 Nor is the reji of Europe in general in the fame circumfiances in nvhich the 

 fvoriter paints Zurich. — Ccnfequently Kiiyogg ir.ay be vfful e*ven in Zu" 

 vichi and fill more in the n]} of Europe, E. 



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