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ured somewhat conspicuously as stars of destiny in relation to him 
long before his birth. They even had somewhat to do with the origi- 
nating of the family name Linneus. But for their influence in this 
direction it is probable that their grandnephew, then unborn, if he 
had distinguished himself as he did, would have been known in his- 
tory and to fame not as Carolus Linneus, but as Karl Nilsson. That 
both these granduncles of Linnzeus were Greek scholars seems attested 
by the fact that, in assuming a new family name, after the medieval 
usage of those who arose from the humble estate of peasantry to the 
aristocracy of learning, they choose the Greek name Tiliander. They 
were Karl and Sven Tiliander. In their boyhood they had been 
known simply as Karl and Sven Svenson, and if they had remained 
uneducated, and in the same lowly and simple estate in which they 
were born, they would have been known by those names to the end of 
their lives. Karl Tiliander rose to wealth and station, adopted a coat 
of arms, in a word, was an aristocrat, but died childless. His grand- 
nephew, however, born ten years after his death, was named in his 
honor. In fact, Karl Tiliander and Karl Linneus are, in meaning, 
the same name precisely. Now the other great uncle, Sven Tiliander, 
was a minister, had a family of minister’s sons to educate, and was 
generous enough to receive as one of his own sons his sister’s son Nils, 
to be educated with them. This peasant boy, Nils Ingemarsson, re- 
member, is the predestined father of our Linneus. But this boy’s 
school scene; lying away back almost upon the edge of medieval times, 
and afar in the north of Europe, well toward the country of the mid- 
night sun, is a pleasant scene, before which we must pause a moment. 
It'is in midst of a time when great people may lead simple lives, and 
when a family group of boys, destined if possible to the intellectual 
hfe—and at least to one of the learned professions, are not at tirst 
to be sent away from home. They live under the parental roof, and 
their Latin tutor lives there with them. That is the language in 
which, later at college and at university, lectures on all subjects will 
be given; it will be the language in which most of the books there 
used are printed, the language of recitation and of student debate. 
So these small boys at home begin Latin. They also so begin it 
as if they were to become interested in it, and really to learn the lan- 
guage, and not to end with a mere smattering of it. “They are to 
speak it, as well as read and write it. Therefore it becomes at once, 
in as far as possible, the medium of spoken intercourse between tutor 
and pupils, the father of the family himself incidentally aiding the 
tutor by addressing the youngsters at mealtime or recreation in 
Latin, and requiring them to answer in that, and not in the mother 
tongue. It was a serious business; the entrance to college, the ma- 
triculation at any university, the rising to any learned profession 
- even, are dependent upon the boys having made good progress in the 
