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the book is Innocue vivito : Numen adest, which at 

 this time replaced his personal motto, Tantus amor 

 florum. But Rosen himself could not be reconciled : 

 perhaps had they had an evening's chat or f a morning 

 walk together on their heathery moors, it would have 

 brought their hearts miles nearer to each other, and 

 their heads too.' 



And so Linnseus and he still lived apart, both in- 

 spired with the same lofty aims, each following his star 

 the polar star * Se tu segui la tua stellaj 1 success is 

 sure the essential is to see the star. They were to 

 meet again. Carr tells us that Rosen, towards the 

 close of his life, was glad of the medical aid of Linnaeus : 

 and the great botanist acknowledges frankly that he 

 owed his life to the skill of Rosen. But much was to 

 happen between this and then. 



Linnaeus does not in the diary mention having 

 drawn his sword upon Rosen, though in the ' Nemesis 

 Divina ' he speaks of it befittingly. But he goes on in 

 the diary to tell us, 4 By this edict Linnaeus was de- 

 prived of his only means of subsistence, and Rosen 

 made up his mind to believe that he had now totally 

 ruined him ; but the following week there came a letter 

 from Baron Reuterholm, with a bill of exchange en- 

 closed, and a request that Linnaeus would set out on 

 his travels in Dalecarlia.' 



No sooner was the door shut than the window was 

 opened. Linnseus flew out of it like a bird. He was 

 1 Dante. 



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