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botanically, the latter of whom, with his usual acuteness, 

 decided that it was " Algarum genus ? ? Confervis simpli- 

 cibus et Tremellas cruentee quodammodo affine ? ? " The 

 " local habitation " thus assigned, has been acknowledged 

 by all succeeding botanists ; and Agardh has completed its 

 history by giving it " a name." Harv. 



" It is to be observed, that the same wisdom which ordained the vege- 

 table creation for the use of feeding and healing the body, hath applied 

 it also to a moral and intellectual use, for the enlarging of our ideas, and 

 the enlightening of our understandings. It joins its voice in the universal 

 chorus of all created things, and to the ear of reason celebrates the wis- 

 dom of the Almighty Creator. As the heavens, from day to day and from 

 night unto night, declare the glory of God, so do the productions of the 

 earth ; all trees and herbs, in their places and seasons, speak the same lan- 

 guage, from the climates of the north to the torrid regions of the south, 

 and from winter to spring and the harvest. Happiest of all is he, who, 

 having cultivated herbs and trees, and studied their virtues, and applied 

 them for his own and for the common benefit, rises from thence to a 

 contemplation of the great Parent of good, whom he sees and adores in 

 these his glorious works. The world cannot shew us a more exalted 

 character than that of a truly religious philosopher, who delights to turn 

 all things to the glory of God ; who from the objects of his sight derives 

 improvement to his mind, and in the glass of things temporal sees the 

 image of things eternal. Let a man have all the world can give him, he 

 is still miserable, if he has a grovelling, unlettered, undevout mind ; let 

 him have his gardens, his fields, his woods, and his lawns, for grandeur, 

 ornament, plenty, and gratification, while at the same time God is not in 

 all his thoughts ; and let another have neither field nor garden ; let him 

 only look at nature with an enlightened mind ; a mind which can see and 

 adore the Creator in his works ; can consider them as demonstrations of 

 his power, his wisdom, his goodness, his truth : this man is greater as 

 well as happier in his poverty, than the other in his riches. The one is 

 but little higher than a beast, the other but little lower than an angel." 

 Rev. W. Jones of Nayland. 



