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and which are still the best school for learning their use. Of 

 this the great authority on codification, Bentham, was per 

 fectly aware : and his early Fragment on Government, the 

 admirable introduction to a series of writings unequalled in 

 their department, contains clear and just views (as far as they 

 go) on the meaning of a natural arrangement, such as could 

 scarcely have occurred to any one who lived anterior to the age 

 of Linnaeus and Bernard de Jussieu. 



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