g 22 M rC R OS CO Pi C A L E S SAY" 



however wonderful its conelufions, would ever have arrived "at;. 

 It was mere euriofity that put Sir Thomas Millington upon ex- 

 amining the minute parts of flowers ; but his difcoveries have 

 produced the moft perfeci and moft ufeful fyftera of botany that 

 the world has yet feen. 



" Other inftances might be produced to prove, that bare euriofity 

 in one age is the fource of the greateft utility in another ; and 

 what has frequently been faid of chymifts, may be applied to 

 every other kind of vertuofi. They hunt, perhaps, after 

 chimeras and impoffibilities ; they find fomething really valuable 

 by the bye. We are but inftruments under the Supreme Director,, 

 and do not fo much as know, in many cafes, what is of moft 

 importance for us to fearch after y but we may be fure of one 

 thing, viz.- that if we ftudy and follow nature, whatever paths we 

 are led into; we fhall at 1 aft arrive at fomething valuable to our- 

 felves and others, but of what kind we- muft be content. to* 

 remain ignorant." 



