106 FRANCIS ORPEN MORRIS 



habitants at large of our villages and towns cling 

 to the country names of the natural objects around 

 them. It is a feeling which I for one would alto- 

 gether encourage rather than at all despise. I know, 

 at the same time, that nothing can be done in 

 natural history without scientific terms, and that 

 these must be given in the words of an obsolete 

 language in order to their communication among 

 the nations of the world, whose tongues are so 

 various and even their idioms so diverse. This, I 

 say, I know ; but I know also, as one who has had 

 the benefit of a classical education, that, though 

 these passwords will do for the learned, they will 

 not do for those who have had no opportunities 

 of becoming so, and that if you would gain the 

 hearts of the people to the studies you love yourself, 

 you must make yourself at home with them in the 

 outset in the words you employ. Nay, more ; if 

 you would have them wholly with you, you must 

 let them see and feel that you yourself are one of 

 themselves in taste and feeling. Who that knows 

 anything of the ' Pleasures of Memory ' would 

 change the common English names of our wild 

 plants for those of a more pretentious character, 

 and make, as it were, his own youth no part of 

 his present existence ? Who would not leave the 

 humble daisy to be a daisy still ? Who that has 

 ever been a child would wish the heart's-ease to be 

 other than the heart's-ease, the buttercup than the 

 buttercup, the lark-spur than the lark-spur, the 

 mouse-ear than the mouse-ear, the foxglove than 



