"Oinnes res creata? sunt divina? sapientise et potentia: testes, diritiac folicitatis 

 humanae: — exharum usu boniiaa Creatoris ; ex pulchritudine sapient ia Domini; 

 ex oeconomia in conservatione, proportione, l'enovatione, potcntla majestatis 

 elucet. Earum itaque indagatio ab hominibus sibi relictis semper sestimata ; 

 a vere ernditis et sapientibus semper cxeulta ; male doctis et barbaris semper 

 inimica fuit." — Linn.eus. 



"Quel que soit le principe de la vie animale, il no Paut qu'ouyrir les yeux pour 

 voir qu'elle est le chef-d'oeuvre de la Toute-puissance, et le but auquel se rappor- 

 tent toutes ses operations." — Biiuckneu, Theorie du Si/sfcme Animal, Leyden, 

 1767. 



The sylvan powers 



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 who*e smooth face 



They crop the lily, and each sedge and rush 



That drinks the rippling tide: the frozen poles, 



Where peril ^Taits (he 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. Taylor, Norwich, 1818. 



