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which, slight in itself, sets one hunting in a new direc- 

 tion, and makes possible a rich discovery.' He asks, 

 ' Is Armeria more likely to be a glacial form, an 

 Atlantic form, or one belonging to an old Pleiocene 

 temperate flora ?' and he tries to find out if it grows 

 near lead-mines. 



Linnaeus next analysed the springs, and prescribed 

 for the maladies of the whole country side. The poor 

 country folks claimed and gained his attention, and 

 he visited the hospital, then containing seventy-eight 

 patients. 



The state of the revenue should (also) be considered 

 as the index of the condition of the poor people,' says 

 Disraeli. 1 Well, Gothenburg is well-off and prosper- 

 ous, and its people look happy : one sees little of that 

 waste, or refuse, in the shape of a dangerous class, of 

 our hasty and imperfect processes of civilisation. The 

 people are as polite as if the dancing-master were 

 abroad ; and yet, strange to say, at Gothenburg it seems 

 as if Carlyle's desideratum, a ' Society for the Diffusion 

 of Common Honesty,' had been at work and growing 

 here for centuries. 



The Gothenburghers have ' had the nous to enlarge 

 the sphere and means of trade, open new sources of 

 traffic and supply, develop resources, and what is of 

 more value perhaps than all beget motion.' 



The glory of Gothenburg, to my mind and it partly 

 explains the secret of these successes is that the virtue 



