Linnaeus to return, and the man who headed the peti- LITTLE 

 tion was the one who had driven him away and who JOURNEYS 

 came near being killed for his pains. 

 Linnaeus and his wife went to Upsala, rich, honored, 

 beloved Jt, JL 



Linnaeus shifted the scientific center of gravity of all 

 Europe to a town, practically to them obscure, a thing 

 they themselves scarcely realized. 

 Henceforth the life of Linnaeus flowed forward like a 

 great and mighty river everything made way for him. 

 He was invited by the King of Spain to come to that 

 country and found a School of Science, and so lavish 

 were the promises that they surely would have turned 

 the head of a lesser man. Universities in many civil- 

 ized countries honored themselves by giving him de- 

 grees Jt & 



In 1761, the King of Sweden issued a patent of nobil- 

 ity in his honor and thereafter he was Carl vonLinne. 

 In England he was known as Sir Charles Linn. A 

 Sainte Beuve, the eminent French critic, says that 

 the world has produced only about half a dozen men 

 who deserve to be placed in the first class. The ele- 

 ments that make up this super-superior man are high 

 intellect which abandons itself to the purpose in hand, 

 careless of form and precedent ; indifference to ob- 

 stacles and opposition ; and a joyous, sympathetic, 

 loving spirit that runs over and inundates every thing it 

 touches, all with no special thought of personal 

 pleasure, gratification or gain. 



LINNAEUS SEEMS TO FILL THE FORMULA. 



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