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The memory of all her unrepaid kindness to him was a 

 sad yet loved relic. Let him now pay her the honour she 

 would most care for in making her the mother of a 

 distinguished son. 



The softened frame of mind into which the tender 

 memory of his loss threw him made him the more sus- 

 ceptible to impressions of feminine grace and beauty, 

 and gave him a longing for woman's more intimately sym- 

 pathetic companionship. ' His friend Brouwallius, after- 



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wards professor and Bishop of Abo, 1 saw no means of his 

 getting forward in the world without going abroad and 

 taking a doctor's degree, in which case he could, on his 

 return, settle where he chose with advantage ; and as 

 money was necessary for all this, there seemed to 

 his friend to be no alternative but for Linnaeus to pay 

 his addresses to some young lady of fortune, whom 

 he might render as happy as she might render him. 

 Linnaeus approved theoretically of this advice ; but not- 

 withstanding several plans were proposed, no one was 

 just then adopted.' Linnaeus, in the previously quoted 

 letter to Haller, speaks of his first and only serious 

 love affair. ' The physician of that district ' [Falun] 

 ' passed for a rich man. Considering the poverty of 

 the province, he could justly be deemed opulent. His 

 name was Moraeus, eminent for his learning and skill 

 among the Swedish physicians. Physic, especially prac- 

 tical medicine, was the science which he esteemed and 

 preferred above all others. He grew fond of me. I visited 

 1 Diary. 



