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6. The study of Botany naturally leads to greater love and 
reverence for the Deity. It may not always produce this 
effect; for, unhappily, there are some minds which, though 
quick to perceive the beauties of nature, seem blindly to over- 
look Him who spread them forth ; they can admire the gifts, 
while they forget the giver. But those who feel in their 
hearts a love to God, and who see in the natural world the 
workings of His power, can look abroad, and, adopting the 
language of a Christian poet, exclaim, 
** My Father made them alL" 
7. Dwision of the Lectures, We will divide our course of 
Btudy as follows, viz. : 
Part I. Analysis of Plants, or Practical Botany. 
Part H. Elementary Botany ; and Vegetable Physiology. 
Paut hi. Classification ; — Systems of Botany / the Linnoean 
System^ with some of the most interesting Genera^ and 
Natural Families found under each class and order. 
Part IV. Progressive appeanrance of Flowers ; their various 
phenomena, and geograpJiical distribution; History of 
Botany ; and General View of Nature. 
Part V. The Natural System. 
Part VI. The Flora, or Descriptions of Genera am.d Species, 
0. Btndv of Botany favorable to piety. — ^7. Division of the conne of atndy 
