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husbandry

is

degraded

with us,

and the

farmer

leads the

meanest of

lives. He

knows

Nature but

as a

robber.

Cato says

that the

profits of

agriculture

are

particularly

pious or

just

(maximeque

pius

quaestus,)

and

according

to Varro

the old

Romans

“called

the same

earth

Mother and

Ceres, and

thought

that they

who

cultivated

it led a

pious and

useful

life, and

that they

alone were

left of

the race

of King

Saturn.”

We are

wont to