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your country by your English Flora, by settling 
the due and true relations between terms and ideas, 
than all those who being only jealous of the glitter 
of novelties afford new confusion in the science to 
the old one. 
Your Grammar, noble friend, is now already 
translated by my son, and shall I hope become the 
botanical common prayer-book of our Bavarian 
students. Pardon me for the expression of common 
prayer-book ; ’twas only to have the honour to show 
you, that I am not of those fools who “ have said 
in their heart, there is no God;” and that I know 
well the use of acommon prayer-book. It was the 
very awe for religion that brought the note, page 8, 
in the translation of your Lntroduction. You can- 
not imagine to yourself in what a terrible abyss of 
paganism, polytheism, or rather pantheism (in the 
ill sense of the word, for in the good one Deo plena 
sunt omnia), of mysticism and Torquemadism my 
poor High-German countrymen are now fallen in, 
by mixing natural philosophy with theology; not 
‘in your manner, and in that of every sound philo- 
sopher, but doing it in their own way. 
ScHULTES. 
27. Selection of the Correspondence of Linnaeus 
and other Naturalists—Two volumes 8vo, pub- 
lished in 1821. These are dedicated to the Linnean 
Society. 
