78  Mr.Roscoz on Artificial and Natural Arrangements of Plants. 
lowers. It is however to be regretted, that these eminent men 
have either not been aware of the true limits of the science 
‚which they cultivate, or have not been satisfied to confine their 
efforts within the bounds which it prescribes; but have endea- 
voured to establish their system as capable of exhibiting a 
complete arrangement of the vegetable kingdom, which would 
render unnecessary all the labours of their predecessors ; and 
still more is it to be regretted, that they should have endea- 
voured to establish such an opinion on the authority of. Linneus 
himself, and should have represented him as speaking a language 
the most foreign from his thoughts, and as having condemned a 
system which he laboured with incessant. assiduity to establish, 
on which his hopes of fame were in some measure founded, and 
which will certainly not defraud him of those honours which are 
so justly his due. 
y. Rinsi 
