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religious zeal, and repentance, at having 
mifpent his time in accumulating, he com- 
mitted to the flames. Mr. Cole certainly 
forgot, at that moment, that the key to 
ufeful fcience is the knowledge of things. 
To colledt the produdions of nature, in. 
order to admire and contemplate in his 
works the great Author of all, is in itfelf 
lurely not only innocent, but laudable; and, 
when the view is extended to the utility of 
man, ftill more meritorious. If the light 
of Mr. Cole's coUedtion might teach but 
one peafant to diftingqifli that plant, which 
cpuld alleviate his own, or the afflidion of 
his neighbour, or his friend, furely it had 
not been made in vain. 
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