56 LECTURE II. 



The advantages resulting from this plan 

 were striking. It was perceived how we 

 could thus learn parts in detail, and also con- 

 template the extreme diversity and extent 

 of the system of nature ; as well as how we 

 might arrange any additional knowledge 

 that was obtained, so as to make it a part 

 of one orderly whole. 



The minds of men seem to have been 

 fascinated by the method which Linneus 

 had adopted ; for it was applied to subjects 

 where no artificial memory was required. 

 Even diseases were thus arranged ; and 

 the attention being directed to their exter- 

 nal characters, it was taken from its true 

 object, which should be to enquire into 

 their intrinsic nature. This is a striking 

 though not singular instance, showing, that 

 even grave and learned men, reputed phi- 

 losophers, have a propensity, like sheep 

 or like school-boys, inconsiderately to fol- 

 low the leader. 



That the arrangement of Linneus is un- 

 natural, and unsuitable to the purposes of 



