"Omnes res creatje sunt divinse sapientia' et potentue testes, divitiie felicitatis 

 humanae : — ex harum usu honitas Creatoris ; ex pulchritudine sapientia Domini ; 

 ex oeconomia in conservatione, proportione, renovatione, potcntia inajesUilis 

 elucet. Earum itaque indagatio ab liominibus sibi relictis semper aestitnata ; 

 a rere eruditis et sapientibus semper eiculta; male doctis et barbaris semper 

 inimica fiiit." — Lisx^us. 



"Quel que soil le priiieipe de la vie animale. il ne faut qu'ouvrir les yeux pour 

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

 tent toutes ses operations." — Bkuckneu, Theoric dii Si/ntente Animal, Leyden, 

 1767. 



The sylvan powers 



Obey our summons ; from their deepest dells 



'I he 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 cavern deep : the Naiads too 



Quit their loved native stream, from whose smooth face 



They crop the lily, and each sedge and rush 



That d'-inks the 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 tlieir cheerful tribute. 



J. Taylor, I^oruich, 1818. 



