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"-|— 10R WHAT we obtain of Nature, we must not do it by commanding 

 \/ but by courting of Her. Those that woo Her, may possibly have 

 her for their Wife: but She is not so common, as to prostitute her self 

 to the best behaved Wit, which only practiseth upon it self, and is not 

 applied to her. I mean, that wherever Men will go beyond Phansie and 

 Imagination, depending upon the Conduct of Divine Wisdom, they must 

 Labour, Hope and Persevere. And as the Means propounded, are all 

 necessary, so they may, in some measure, prove effectual. How far, I 

 promise not; the way is long and dark; and as Travellers sometimes 

 among Mountains, by gaining the top of one, are so far from their 

 journey's end; that they only come to see that another lies before them: 

 so the way of Nature, is so impervious, and, as I may say, down Hill 

 and Up Hill, that how far soever we go, yet the surmounting of one 

 difficulty, is wont still to give us the prospect of another." 



Nehemiah Grew, M.D., F.R.S. 



Anatomy of Plants, 1682. 



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