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he would find out, by fearching with friendly eyes 
and a pure heart. 
Let him, then, fhew a cool indifterence for the 
idle queftions of bufy-bodies, who appeal to his 
opinion with no better view than to render him an 
objeft of ridicule. His Ikill will not be diminifhed 
by referve ; nor ought any fiudent to give himfelf 
up to thefe purfuits, without feeling this felf-perfua- 
fion, — that he is endowed with the qualities re- 
quired for fuch a fcience. In this cafe, he would 
anticipate the pleafure of difcovering wonders, as 
a fufficient recompenfe for the troublefome but 
delightful talk of reading the book of Nature, 
and ftudying the features of all Having creatures, 
from man to plants. 
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