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recited, and under pressure of illness as well as of haste. 

 It is energetic and interesting. He gives a figurative 

 description of the three kingdoms of nature, with 

 allusions to the various analogies that subsist between 

 them. After complimenting the students on the marked 

 propriety of their conduct during his rectorship, he 

 proved his favourite pursuit to be not like the ordinary 

 and perishable enjoyments of life, but one of the richest 

 and most permanent sources of pleasure which the kind- 

 ness of Providence has opened to the human mind. 

 Alas ! Linne knew nothing of art. 



In 1773 he was chosen member of a committee 

 to superintend the better translation of the Bible, and 

 the task of ascertaining and describing the plants and 

 vegetable productions mentioned in Holy Scripture-was 

 entrusted to his care. This called up sadly sweet re- 

 miniscences of Dean Celsius and his own early days, 

 and of his gifted pupil Hasselquist, whose work was 

 preserved and illustrated by himself. All his own most 

 important works begin and end with some verse from 

 the Scriptures. He honoured the Lord who ' permitted 

 him to visit His secret council-chambers.' None knew 

 better than he that what we do of ourselves is not the 

 best we can do; we must, for the best, seek for the 

 Divine strength and light to help us. 



It was too late for him now to begin to write the 

 natural history of Lapland, which he had promised the 

 world and himself to do. ' The body, that machine for 

 acting will,' was out of gear and would work no longer. 



