LIFE OF 

 SIR JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER 



CHAPTER I . 



EARLY DAYS 



A LIFE whose span is almost a century may well be witness 



Errata. 



P. 19, line 9. For Of Elizabeth's children, &c., read Elizabeth's 

 husband, Sir Francis Palgrave, became Keeper of the 

 Records. One of their sons, &c. 



P. 67, line 21. For (II. 12.) read (p. 45). 



Life of Sir J. Hooker. Vol. I. 



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only permitted nature to be interpreted through the perspective 

 of creed. 



Against those barriers the flood of natural knowledge had 

 been slowly piling itself up, only awaiting the hand that should 

 open a channel and a fresh impulse and a common direction 

 to these chained-up currents. Mechanical aids, such as the 

 magnifying lens, had opened the way to new investigations 

 of life since the seventeenth century. From the needs of 



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