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"'Oiiincs res creatae sunt divinse sapientiae et potentiffi testes, divitiffi felicitatis 

 humanae : — ex harum usu bonitas Creatoris ; ex pulchritiidine scqnentia Domini ; 

 ex ceconomia in conservatione, proportione, renovatione, potentia majestatis 

 elucet. Earum itaque indagatio ab hominibus sibi relictis semper gestimata ; 

 a vere eruditis et sapientibus semper exculta ; male doctis et barbaris semper 

 inimica fuit." — Linn^eqs. 



"Quel que soit le principe de la vie animale, il ne faut qu'ouvrir les yeux pour 

 Toir qu'elle est le chef-d'oeuvre de la Toute-puissance, et le but auquel se rappor- 

 tent toutes ses operations." — Bhuckneu, TMorie dto Si/steme Animal, Leyden, 

 1767. 



.... The sylvan powers 



Obey our summons ; from their deepest dells 



The Dryads come, and throw their garlands wild 



And odorous branches at our feet ; the Nymphs 



That press with niinble step the mountain-thyme 



And purple heath-flower come not empty-handed, 



But scatter round ten thousand forms minute 



Of velvet moss or lichen, torn from rock 



Or rifted oak or cavern deep : the Naiads too 



Quit their loved native stream, from whose smooth face 



They crop the lily, and each sedge and rush 



That drinks the rippling tide: the frozen pole.s. 



Where peril ^aits the bold adventm:'er's tread,; 



The burning sands of Borneo and Cayenne, 



All, all to us unlock their secret stores 



And pay their cheerful tribute. 



J. Tayloi!, Nonvich, 1818. 



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