“The PREF AGE; 
yeas Thoufand; nay fo far. will a’ 
Senfe of Utility’ get the better of the 
Pride of mere Curiofity, that he foould 
fuppofe this a Thing preferable to be 
fad of him, to the having difcovered 
forme unknown Species; to having picked 
Srom the Botiom of fome Pond, an un-. 
defcribed Conferva, or to having fetched 
from the moft remote Parts of the World, 
@ Kind of Tree Mo/s, with Heads arg: 
er than thofe at Home. 
It grieves a Man of public Spirit and — 
Humanity, to fee thofe Things which are 
the Means alone of the Advantages of 
cd, whilethe-End, that 
ntage itfelf, is forgotten. And 
in “ne ae regard a Cul- 
pepper, as a more refpettable Perfon, 
than a Linneus or a Dillenius. 
‘That Botany is an ufe ful Study is 
plain ; becaufe it is in vain that we 
pw Betony is good for Head-achs, or — 
3 | Self-heal for Wounds, unlefs we can 
_ diftinguifh Betony and Self-heal from 
one another, and fo it runs fe gh the — 
aes a i 
whole Study, “A e are i by at. sis 4 
