26 GREENE 



The good orthodox Lutheran ecclesiastics that ruled the Swedish 

 university in every department of it would be thoroughly content with 

 the pronouncements of the Philosophia Botanica; and that was a 

 book any scholar would read with pleasure and with profit; but noth- 

 ing like that could be said of the Species Plantarum. Here, at least, 

 in footnotes, or even in places more obscure, very briefly, veiled in 

 figures of rhetoric, and even under the further protection of question 

 marks, he could express his profounder convictions and feel secure. 

 And he was secure, indeed. 



lini, Reliquiae quae, supersunt commercii epistolici cum Carolo Linnaco Alberto 

 Hallero Guilielmo Stellero et al., Floram Gmelini Sibericam ejusque Iter 

 sibericum potissimuni concernentis, ex mandato et sumtibus Academiae scien- 

 tiarum Caesareaj Petropolitanae publicandas curavit Dr. Guil. Henr. Theodor 

 Plieninger; Stuttgart, 1861," p. 55, and is as follows: "Non placet quod 

 Hominem iter anthropomorpha collocaverim; sed homo noscit se ipsum. 

 Removeamus vocabula, mihi perinde erit, quo nomine utamur; sed quaero 

 a Te et Toto orbe differentiam genericam inter hominem et Simiam, quae ex 

 principiis Historiac naturalis. Ego certissime nullam novi; utinani aliquis 

 mihi unicam diceret. Si vocassem hominem simiam vel vice versa omnes in 

 me conjecissem theologos. Debuissem forte ex lege artis." 



