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The good orthodox Lutheran ecclesiastics 

 that ruled the Swedish university in every 

 department of it would be thoroughly content 

 with the pronouncements of the Philosophia 

 Botanica; and that was a book any scholar 

 would read with pleasure and with profit; 

 but nothing like that could be said of the 

 Species Plantarum. Here, at least, in foot- 

 notes, or even in places more obscure, very 

 briefly, veiled in figures of rhetoric, and even 

 under the further protection of question 

 marks, he could express his profounder con- 

 victions and feel secure. And he was secure, 

 indeed. 



commercii epistolici cum Carolo Linnaeo Alberto Hallero 

 Guilielmo Stellero et al., Floram Gmelini Sibericam ej usque 

 Iter sibericum potissimum concernentis, ex mandate et 

 sumtibus Academiae scientiarum Csesareae Petropolitanae 

 publicandas curavit Dr. Guil. Henr. Theodor Plieninger; 

 Stuttgart, 1861," p. 55, and is as follows: "Non placet 

 quod Hominem iter anthropomorpha collocaverim ; sed homo 

 noscit se ipsum. Removeamus vocabula, mihi perinde erit, 

 quo nomine utamur; sed qusero a Te et To to orbe differ- 

 entiam genericam inter hominem et Simiam, quse ex prin- 

 cipiic Historise naturalis. Ego certissime nullam novi; 

 utinam aliquis mihi unicam diceret. Si vocassem hominem 

 simiam vel vice versa omnes in me conjecissem theologos. 

 Debuissem forte ex lege artis." 



