[912] Id. ib. p. 192 The abuse was at its height in the Catholic Cantons, but the Protestant participated, even soon after the Reformation (id. p. 157; Geschichte, ii, 626).
[913] Id. Short History, p. 182.
[914] Id. Geschichte, i, 572; ii, 722; Short History, p. 169.
[915] Zschokke, as cited, p. 148; Dändliker, Short History, p. 153.
[916] Dändliker, Short History, p. 193.
[917] See the extremely interesting investigation of M. de Candolle in his Histoire des sciences et des savants depuis deux siècles, 1873, p. 131 ff. Cp. Ph. Godet, Histoire littéraire de la Suisse française, 1890, p. 170, as to the general influence.
[918] Cp. Dändliker, Geschichte, iii, 43-103; Short History, pp. 194-99.
[919] Id. Geschichte, iii, 174-78.
[920] Id. ib. iii, 170-74. England is found learning from Switzerland on this side. In the volume of translations entitled Foreign Essays on Agriculture and the Arts, published in 1766, the majority of the papers are by Swiss writers. Hume ("Of the Populousness of Ancient Nations," Essays, ed. 1825, i, 410) writes that in Switzerland in his day "we find at once the most skilful husbandmen and the most bungling tradesmen that are to be met with in Europe."
[921] Dändliker, Short History, p. 199. Under Louis XIV there had been 28,000 Swiss troops in the French service. In 1790 there were only 15,000. But there were six Swiss regiments in the Dutch army, four at Naples, and four in Spain (Vieusseux, p. 210).