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been born there, as the son of the pastor whom he in turn succeeded; 
so that her father and her grandfather had been pastors of that 
parish all their lives—so to speak—while the priest who preceded 
her paternal grandfather in that same church had been her great- 
grandfather on her mother’s side. Realizing now that, when in the 
nineteenth year of her own age Christina Linneeus’s first-born arrived 
at the parsonage where both she and her father before her had been 
born, where a grandfather of hers and even a great-grandfather had 
held life-long pastorates, we pardon the ambition of the young 
iaother who set her whole heart and soul upon the plan of having 
this her first-born trained and fitted to inherit that pastorate already 
historically so remarkable, of which history she could not but be 
proud. 
SCHOOL, COLLEGE, AND UNIVERSITY YEARS. 
The mental training of the child Linneus was, of course, begun at 
home. At 7 years of age he was well enough advanced to have a tutor. 
At 10 he was sent away to a Latin school and theological preparatory 
at Wexi6, not many miles from home. After eight years there, the 
progress made in studies looking to the office of a Lutheran ecclesiastic 
seems not to have been satisfactory; and now the Rey. Nils Linneus 
came journeying to Wexid. The instructors whose duty it had been 
to train the boy in Hebrew and biblical learning had failed to interest 
him, and they said to the father that they could not, on their con- 
sciences, advise him to continue the youth ‘at school. In their view it 
would be better at once to apprentice him to the learning of some 
handicraft, that of carpenter or tailor, for example. Doubtless this 
counsel would have been followed but that Pastor Linneus had 
another errand at Wexi6 that must’ be attended to before the disheart- 
ened return to Stenbrohult, whether, as it now seemed, he would have 
to convey his son, now 18 years old, as withdrawn from college 
because of his having no taste for learning; that is, theological. 
Pastor Linneus’s other errand was that of placing himself under 
the direction of an eminent physician of Wexi6 as to an ailment of 
his. The physician was Doctor Rothman, who was also a lecturer on 
medicine at the college; and this man, as it happened, both knew and 
was much interested in the youthful member of the Linneus family. 
When the father confidingly mentioned his deep grief over his son’s 
failure at school, Doctor Rothman was able to cheer him with a very 
different account of his boy’s proficiency. He was so confident that 
out of this bright youth a great physician might be made that he 
proposed to receive him, with the father’s consent, into his own house 
for a year and give him special instruction, free of all charge; and 
this was done. 
