m A ? P E N D I :^:. 



Such rewards wculd infinitely more promote ioiprcvements ia hut'^ 

 hBndty, than rhe coftora of ofFtting premiums for the heft diflertatiou 

 en fixed quefiion?. My method condufts to its end dired\ly ; whilft ia- 

 genious fpecuiaiions .are flow and remote in their contquence&f. • 



I cannot better conclude than with a remark from the Hicro of Xeno-* 

 phon, which perfe(^ly ag.rces with ihe plan here cfTered. ** ^Agriculture 

 « whicU though one of the mofl lucrative eaAployrnents has never yet been 



* attempted to be for-varded by ejrulation, would greatly flourifti, M premh 



* urns were cftablifhed in the country and in the villages for thofe who heft 



* cultivated the earth. The citizei)8 thus encouraged to excrilon?, 

 ^ would make great profits ; the revenues of the ftate would augment ; 



* and a raodeft temperance would be joined to a love of labor. It is be- 

 < fides known that criaies arc lefis common among the induftriousj.** 



No. V. 



Of the honors paid to agriculture in certain eaflern 



countries. 



There are fome reaiarkable inibnces (fays Mr. Giolon when fpeaking 

 of Perjza in antient times) in which Zoroaiter* lays afide the prophet, af- 

 fua.es the leglflator, and difcovers a liberal concern for private and public 

 hfippir.efs, feldom to be found among the gioveling or vifionary fchemes 

 of fiiperrtition. — Fafting and celibacy, t!;c common nneans of purchafing 

 the divine favor, he condemns with abhorrence ; as a criminal rejedtioR 

 i}i the bert gifts of Provj<lence. The faint, in the Magian religion, :t 

 cbligtd to bt'gel ehUJrcn ; to plant uftfui trees, to deRroy noxious ani- 



+ Yonichitigi Emperor ofChhiay ivho died in ihe year 1 724, afid nvas re^ 

 narhabie for hts jujiice end ohfer-vatioii of the tanjos, " raifed to the: 

 " rank of a mandarin of the eighth cJafs^ that laborer, in cverj pro<vinc£t 

 ** ivhoi by the united 'VCiice of the mandarins of his canton^ ivas decreed the 

 ** niojl diligent^ induftriousy kcnef man ! Not that the laborer trvas campeUed 

 ** to quit his original pro fJJtQn^ ix^here he had made fo good a figure^ to exer- 

 ** c'^^ f unci 1371 s cf judicature ivith <which he ivas utterly tinacquainted. He 

 ^^^JiiU remained a labor er^ fjuiih the title cf riandarin : He enjoyed the prl'^j^ 

 ** ihJge vf being next ihe goxierjior cf the prsvinccy and eating at his table • 

 *' and his name food in letters of gold in the public hall. It is f aid that thh 

 ** cttjhmy fo repugnant to our manners^ and fo firong a fitire upon them^ 

 ^ Jlill fubfp:* See Addiri-ous to ihe Hfoty of all Nations, by M, Vol- 

 ♦♦ laire. F. 



"4! Dr. Ilirzelin hisix'otk cites a celebrated encomium on agriculture^ hy 

 the an! lent Socrates% extraSfed from the fifth book of the Memorabilia of 

 Xevophon. But as it does net agree 'with modern inaniijtn and religion m 

 Jyme particulars^ it has been. Jifgtefltd l.i'7i, E, 



* AFtrfanhg^faton 



