Stokes^s Botanical Commentanes* 55 



them, moreover, not a little impious ; tending as they do to 

 rob God of the honour due unto his name, and manifesting 

 on the part (if their advocate.^ a weak and futile attempt to 

 deny' the Almighty thkt portion at least 6f th6 attribiftes of 

 wisdom and ben'eficence every '*where so conspicuously' dis- 

 played in the works of the creation. Never let the delightful 

 study of hatiiral history be so prostituted and perverted as to 

 be maide a' V^(^hicle for the di'sseminatiori bf athei^ni and iitt'[*)iety ! 

 Its genuine' and legitimate fruits 'W^ s(ffirm to* be the direct 

 reverse of ^uch' coiicilus^iWns. ** F6r fh^' Intisdble things of 

 God from the crfeatioif of 'the' wotid' Wfer 'fclfefarly * s'ei^n, -being 

 understood by the thiti^s that al^' made, even' his. eternal 

 pow^r and Godheatd^'"* ' **'0 Lord, ho\v manifold are' thy 

 wm*ks^ ? in ■'^i^dfel -fea^ ^oiini^de them* aU r the earth is 

 fuil^bf t%^'richesj'^^'-" J''^ ^^^^^^ ' ^- '^^''*' -^^' -:-^- 



.'b ,jy(f Jili /d ba'lJlipDB £Ii> -d dljilj fMSi uUJfOUIJc; -'i'lJ'A. R. Y. 



J^Rf^^il^y^'jBcfiardm^ '(hmmimedH^i^ By* Jott^thafii Stokes, M.D. 

 \ f' (.H .«! ,/A^Vol.I. 8vo. 14^. London, 1830. ! i 



The author of the present 'wo^k'fias been a labourer in the 

 vineyard of science for more than half* a century. He was the 

 colleague of Withering in the second edition of the^?r«?2^£'- 

 ment (^/^ British Plants, and contributed ' various' interesting 

 niatfei^5'yiilcH*,*'tiemg ojnitted, iii" ^ul3sequ^nt Editions of "the 

 wort, nas rendfefed fKat' impress an object 6'f 'cul^ibfettyl ^ He 

 no^Si^^fi^ KtnPf .tefore ' th^ pub!iic%!tV^J^''*^«^^ 



Wjfpiise lift, 1a ^Y^^die^ Ht the kingdoih, fMs;t^/ex^li^ 

 &im 'Irom keeping' pace with the galloping jprogress of science, 

 he' has the rare merit of haViilg observed' for himself, with' a 

 perseverance and in(l&^t|V vf^iy uncommon among those whb 

 figure 'at iiead-quarte'rs a"^ tKe "oi'acles of the tabled Nbtliiiig 

 can.be more delightful than to witness his ardoui^'aiiS^eilel'gy, 

 the abundance of his speculations, the fluency with' '^hlchne 



treats of "^alj' botanidp!! , anid'horticultural experiments; aiid, 

 tribugh long past the epbcji 'assigned to man's ife' he is as 

 fead\^ as ever '0'enle/' the iielt},. and, i6&rnaliy^'ili€^'mstofy'6f 



and far' imofe intelligibly to the English reader^ had it been rendered thus : 

 " iFoivthe injv^isibile fthi^igs qf God,- ev;en, his eternal pqwer and Godhead, 

 since tlie creation of the world, are clearly seen, being understood by the 

 things that are made." 

 t Psalm civ. 24. 



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