" Oinncs res creatse sunt divinoe sapientia; et potential testes, divitiae felicitatia 

 humaiiie: — ex harum usu boiiUas Creatoris; ex pulcliritudine sapientia Domini; 

 ex ceconomia in conservatione, proportione, renovatione, potentia raajestatis 

 olucet. Earum itaque indagatio ab hominibus sibi relictis semper sestimata ; 

 a vere eruditis et sapientibus semper exculta ; male doctis et barbaris semper 

 Jnimica fuit." — LiNNiEus. 



"Quel que soit le principe de la vie animale, il no faut qu'ouvrir lesyeux pour 

 voir qu'elle est le chef-d'eeuvre de la Toute-puissance, et le but auquel se rappor- 

 tent toutes ses operations." — Bruckner, Thioric du Systhne Animal, Leyden, 

 1767. 



Tlie sylvan powers 



Obey our summons ; from their deepest dells 



The Dryads come, and throw their garlands wild 



And odorous branches at our feet ; the Nymphs 



That press with nimble step the mountain-thyme 



And purple heath-flower come not empty-handed, 



But scatter round ten thousand forms minute 



Of velvet moss or lichen, torn from rock 



Or rifted oak or ciivcrn deep : the Naiads too 



Quit their loved native stream, from whose smooth face 



They crop the lily, and each sedge and rush 



That drinks tiie rippling tide : the frozen poles, 



Where peril waits the bold adventurer's tread, 



The burning sands of Borneo and Cayenne, 



All, all to us unlock their .secret stores 



And pay their cheerful tribute. 



.^ J. Taylor, Nonvich, 1818. 



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