‘‘Omnes res create sunt divine sapientie et potentie testes, divitie felicitatis 
humane :—ex harum usu bonitas Creatoris; ex pulchritudine sapientia Domini; 
ex ceconomia in conservatione, proportione, renovatione, potentia majestatis elucet. 
Earum itaque indagatio ab hominibus sibirelictis semper zstimata; a veré eruditis 
et sapientibus semper exculta; malé doctis et barbaris semper inimica fuit.”’— 
LINNZUS. 
“Quel que soit le principe de la vie animale, il ne faut qu’ouvrir les yeux pour voir 
qu'elle est le chef-d’ceuvre de la Toute-puissance, et:le but auquel se rapportent 
toutes ses opérations.”—BRUCKNER, Théorie du Systeme Animal, Leyden, 1767. 
pcr Mi-tb sitet hte momicren (he lsylvanmpowers 
Obey our summons ; from their deepest dells 
The Dryads come, and throw their garlands wild 
And odorous branches at our feet ; the Nymphs 
That press with nimble step the mountain-thyme 
And purple heath-flower come not empty-handed, 
But scatter round ten thousand forms minute 
Of velvet moss or lichen, torn from rock 
Or rifted oak or cavern deep: the Naiads too 
Quit their loved native stream, from whose smooth face 
They crop the lily, and each sedge and rush 
That drinks the rippling tide: the frozen poles, 
Where peril waits the bold adventurer’s tread, 
The burning sands of Borneo and Cayenne, 
All, all to us unlock their secret stores 
And pay their cheerful tribute. 
J. Taytor, Norwich, 1818. 
