botanical reform. 
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.. yet I cannot in all points agree with him V The energy of truth and 
and the goodness of his cause soon got the upper hand. Opposition 
could not triumph over the majority of the impartial, and the reform o 
LiNNiEUS was introduced with his ameliorated botanical technology. 
One of the greatest philosophers of this century, who found the ut- 
most delight in nature, expresses himself in the following manner re- 
spefting this new technical language : « It has been objeded, says J. J. 
Rousseau, « that this nomenclature was not Ciceronian. But this ob- 
« jection would only then find any reasonable grounds, if Cicero had 
« written a complete treatise on botany. AH those terms are, whether, 
« Greek or Latin, expressive, concise, 
« cision, form even elegant constructions. In tie at y pra 
« art we find all the utility of its new language, which is as muc conve * 
« nient and necessary to botanists as algebra to the geometricians 
Linnalus published another little work, which was a description ot 
Cue tort’s orchard (Viridarium Cliffortianum) ; and he then resolved 
with impatience to return to his future bride, by quitting Hartecam h 
which had till now been his elysium, at the expiration of die year 1 7 g 7 . 
, j u- :ii~ the most curious in Holland , but the 
He had rendered this villa the mo 
period of its fame was but of a short duration. Cliffort, y 
liberal sacrifices to nature and an, found himself a, las. in ^an. 
circumstances, and the glory of Hartecumf vantshed w.th h.m. 
villa itself remained in possession of his fami y. 
_ . j no t follow with equal en- 
afterwards Burgomaster of Amsterdam , d 
n f , T udwic wh o by his medical talents acquired such high dittincTion, says in his 
* Pn>fe u t ler “ iflddc Crilica Botancia Linruei semis ? Rigorosus quidem, sed sae- 
1 Tphsime felix botaniarum censor esf t non diluent qu<e frotulit, licet non in omnibus cunt 
tt ipso sentire queatn. 
t See aoessssu's preface » Ms 
