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upon the adjacent rocks, whose productions gave us 

 plenty of entertainment.' Particularly so to these 

 students. Linnaeus said of Fabricius and Zoega the 

 Dane, ' If Fabricius comes with an insect or Zoega 

 with a moss, I pull off my hat and say, " Be you my 

 teachers ! " 'In the afternoon we repaired to his 

 garden, and in the evening we mostly played at the 

 Swedish game of trissett in company with his spouse.' 



To Linnaeus will apply M. Hale"vy's eulogium on his 

 predecessor in the French Academy : l i To the end of 

 his long life he set an example of youthfulness, and it is 

 perhaps for that quality above all that the last years of 

 this noble existence are worthy of consideration. The 

 present world is full of young people who are tired of 

 life before they have lived. . . . He never suffered from 

 this incapacity of enjoying life, which is, in fact, an 

 inability to love duty. He never required to dose, to 

 analyse, and to decompose the state of his mind. He 

 simply adhered to that ideal which has been for cen- 

 turies the light of the human conscience. He loved 

 labour ; he loved honour ; he loved his country ; and 

 it is thus that he has been able to leave behind him, 

 living and lasting, the works of his intellect and the 

 works of his heart.' 



The elder Mill had never known a happy old man 

 except those who were able to live over again in the 

 pleasures of the young. The rest, he says, are selfish or 



1 M. d'Haussonville. 



