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INTRODUCTION^ 



isolated manner, there are subjeets that will give amnle 

 scope for the employment of the talents of tL greTtest 

 philosophers , ,n the due contemplation of whifh they 



may themselves denve both pleasure and advantage, and 



be the means of communicating them to others. L™nnet 

 acquired at least as much honour, and rendered as grel 

 service to mankind, by his intimate acquaintance wth 

 the anatomy and functions of the organs of a single cater- 

 pillar, as If he had spent his life in arranging all the 

 known insects of the world according to a new and „a' 

 tnra sys em. But the facility of any method has also its 

 disadvantages, ,na.much as it may induce many to rest 

 contented «,h a superficial view, instead of pursuing 



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des methodes artificielles n'en ont point saisi le veritable 

 esprit :^ ceux qui ne s'attachent qu'a ces classifications 

 arbitraires ignorent la beaute et la dignity de la science." 

 It was long unfortunately too much the practice for 

 the one party, having devoted an exclusive attention to 

 one or other of these methods, to decry that with which 

 he was unacquainted, or at least the advantages of which 

 he had not the good fortune to experience ; and perhaps 

 It IS the unavoidable consequence of attending too much 

 to trifling details as to the discrimination of species 

 where the characters are superficial and of minor ira' 

 portance, that the mind becomes unfitted for grappling 

 with .Botany properly so called, and for adapting itself to 



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