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suffice ; we must go beyond the puerilities of its elements, nor 

 stop short at the difficulties opposed to further progress, for the 

 pleasure derived from knowledge of any kind is in some degree 

 proportioned to the labour requisite for the attainment ; and they 

 who will not endure the one cannot expect the reward attendant 

 on success. If, however, the student will collect, by personal ob- 

 servation, particulars to test, and extend general views, if he 

 will develope the structure of plants, tracing the adaptations of 

 one part to another, if he will study their relations to one ano- 

 ther, to their soils, and to their countries, if he will indulge those 

 feelings and moral associations which ever and anon the objects of 



his investigation force upon him 



" The well-directed sight 



Brings, in each flower, an universe to light," 



he will reap a rich harvest of profitable knowledge ; for it is not 

 possible that less can await him who searches out the works of the 

 Creator who made the earth to bring forth grass, the herb yield- 

 ing seed, and the fruit-tree yielding fruit after his kind, and pro- 

 nounced them " very good." " The wisdom of God," says a 

 learned physician, " receives small honour from those vulgar 

 heads that rudely stare about, and with a gross rusticity admire 

 His works ; those highly magnifie him, whose judicious inquiry 

 into his acts, and deliberate research into his creatures, return 

 the duty of a devout and learned admiration." 



