ioo THROUGH THE FIELDS WITH LINNAEUS 



deliciously hard ; felt light, happy, invincible ' ; and they 

 loved like David and Jonathan. 



To Artedi Linnasus was like a young brother like 

 himself, but more ardent : as Frederika Bremer says of 

 another naturalist (Kingsley), ' a young mind that he 

 could like, love, quarrel with, live with, influence, be 

 influenced by, follow through the thorny path, through 

 tropical islands, through storm and sunshine, higher 

 and higher ascending into the metamorphosis of exis- 

 tence/ Both were handsome in feature, improved by 

 the beauty of expression caused by the habitual admira- 

 tion of God's works : the love of beauty, and of God who 

 made such beauty, passes into the countenance and 

 glorifies it. Their faces were thus habitually cast in noble 

 lines, animated by the eagerness of innocent discovery. 

 They had no lower lusts, poverty kept them from all 

 other indulgence, disciplined them. They had none but 

 intellectual pleasures, and these of a fine kind. At first 

 they laughed at poverty they, so rich in gifts, health, 

 youth, affection, admiration, all that makes life so 

 precious. 



Dans un grenier, qu'on est bien a vingt ans. 

 Earth, air, and water were full of their familiar friends. 

 They daily sought and found that beauty which Plato 

 defines it goes best in French i Le splendeur du vrai,' * 

 while Aristotle as truly declares that beauty consists in 

 the complete development of beings, each according to 

 its sort and nature, the groundwork of all science. The 

 1 Which, indeed, is the best definition of Art. 



