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is changed to Von Linne, is most amusing in its sim- 

 plicity. It seems, however, to have been written from 

 rough notes by different loving hands probably those 

 of favourite pupils. ' The greater part of the handwrit- 

 ing of Linnasus's Swedish MSS. is Dr. Lindwall's, who 

 was a pupil of Linnaeus ; but different hands are dis- 

 coverable, and abrupt transitions from the third person 

 to the first.' 1 Linnasus needed a secretary to conduct his 

 large foreign correspondence ; indeed he had the faculty 

 of being able to employ three secretaries at once on dif- 

 ferent topics, and it would seem that the secretary wrote 

 the diary, which is by no means a journal or daily 

 register. 



But whatever he or others thought about it, the fact 

 remains that he was a great and good man. It was 

 natural to his temperament to revel in fame, that oxygen 

 of the metaphysical atmosphere. 



' And for this fame &c., I know a little of her worth. 

 She is a fact ; it is not wise to ignore her, but at least 

 to walk once round her, and see her back as well as her 

 front. A man feels in himself the love of praise. It is a 

 universal human faculty. Carlyle nicknames it the sixth 

 sense. Who made it ? Why has God put His love of 

 praise into the heart of every child which is born into 

 the world, and entwined it into the holiest filial and 

 family affections, as the earliest mainspring of good 

 actions ? ' 2 



That the world appreciated him is proved by the 

 1 Smith. 2 Kingsley. 



