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side. Realizing now that, when in the nine- 

 teenth year of her own age, Christina Lin- 

 nseus'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 mother 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 Linnaeus 

 was, of course, begun at home. At seven 

 years of age he was well enough advanced 

 to have a tutor. At ten he was sent away to 

 a Latin school and theological preparatory 

 at Wexio, 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 Reverend Nils Linnseus came journeying 

 to Wexio. The instructors whose duty it 

 had been to train the boy in Hebrew and 



