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Agree the homage of the sincerest and deep-felt 
‘respect, esteem, and even awe. I have the honour 
to continue for ever faithfully, 
Noble Sir, 
Your most obedient Servant and Friend, 
J. A. ScHULTES. 
Landshut in Bayaria, 1822. 
My very dear and noble Sir, 
Your plain English Flora will, become a benefit, 
a blessing to your countrymen and countrywomen, 
and to their children in their furthest generations. 
You will become by it the very British botanical So- 
crates,who, as Tully said, “scientiam e celo deduait,” 
&c. ; and, as Socrates did in philosophy, thus banish 
the sophisms of botanophilt ephebi, &c. (to use some 
sneer of holy father Linnzeus) out of the realm of 
the amabilis scientia. Your country, as well as 
Germany and France, needs highly to receive the 
impressions of a new die, cut and hardened by the 
master-hand of a first-rate botanist, if botany should 
not relapse in the old chaos before the times of 
Bauhin, and cease to be of any use to mankind. 
All our modern botanists pretend to the possession 
of the key of Nature’s mysterious temple ; and what 
they open is nothing else (thus it seems to me) 
but the gloomy dwelling of Minotaurus. 
“ Multiplicique domo, caecisque includere tectis, 
Ponit opus, turbatque notas et lumina flexum 
Ducit in errorem variarum ambage viarum.” 
Youll forward more the wealth of science and of 
