sacrifices
not to
Ceres and
the
Terrestrial
Jove, but
to the
infernal
Plutus
[Plutus〈n.〉普鲁托斯,希腊神话中的财神。]rather. By
avarice
and
selfishness,
and a
grovelling
habit,
from which
none of us
is free,
of
regarding
the soil
as
property,
or the
means of
acquiring
property
chiefly,
the
landscape
is
deformed,
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


