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to juggle. He knew with the Platonic poet, 

 that 



Maria ac terras coelumque profundum 



Lucentemque globum hmas, Titaniaque astra 

 Spiritus intus alit ; totamque infusa per artus 

 Mens agitat molem_et magno se corpore miscet. 



To sum up the merits of this great man : as 

 he was the first who truly raised Natural His- 

 tory to the rank of a science, so under his 

 auspices it flourished with the most unex- 

 ampled rapidity. In his native country it was 

 cultivated to a degree unknown elsewhere. 

 His pupils carried it into every country of 

 Europe, disseminating the system and cele- 

 brity of their master, and raising monuments 

 to their own fame. He had the satisfaction of 

 seeing his writings triumph over bigoted con- 

 tempt, over interested opposition, and over 

 national prepossessions. He lived to see pub- 

 lic institutions established in various coun- 

 tries for the cultivation of Natural History, 

 and had the satisfaction to reflect that it was 

 himself who had raised the science to that 

 degree of estimation which it merited from 

 mankind. 



Nothing can so much tend to exalt our opi- 

 nion of Linnaeus, as the number and distinction 

 of those men who were either educated under 



