Botanical Specimens from 'Nature. 



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Were drawing in all its departments as universally taught to 

 youth as reading and writing are, every person would be just as 

 able to depict by sketches whatever visible objects come before 

 him, as he is to write down by words whatever he may hear 

 spoken ; but, as these times have not yet arrived, every man must 

 work out his own education in this point, and in every other 

 where he feels it most defective. It is, or used to be, a general 

 prejudice, that the talent of drawing objects was a gift of nature. 



