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“•ample of his pupil Forskal before his eyes, who immediately after 
u his return from Goettingen , saw himself involved in so many theolo- 
(e gical disputes, as would, perhaps, have been: carried too far, had he 
« not left the field of litigation, by setting out on his voyage to* 
u Arabia. 
« Linnaeus knew how to secure to himself, even in his earlier days, 
« that dominion over the three reigns of nature, which he preserved 
« till death. 
« In mineralogy his very countrymen entered the lists of contention' 
t« against him. He certainly was often attacked and censured with in- 
ti justice; and the little inaccuracies, which will never fail to exist in 
“works of that importance, ought to have been palliated and over- 
« looked, on account of. the other great merits of their author. It is, 
“ however, an incontrovertible fa£t, that he fist introduced systematic 
« regularity in the mineral reign. He formed the classes, am deter- 
« mined the genera and species by regular distinctive marks, ich he 
“ derived from the external appearance. Thus mineralogy became a> 
“ regular science, after it had formerly been but a chaos created by the 
« miners, who used to discriminate the minerals partly by practice and 
« partly by fire. Li-nNjeus having once left the mines, having no la- 
« boratory, and being over-burdened by a multiplicity of other occu- 
« pations, discontinued to exert himself so much in mineralogy. His 
“ system is however excellent, his hypothesis the fruit of the ripest 
« reflection, his description of the species are excellent, and his obser- 
« vations truly important. In spite of all attacks, his name will likc- 
« wise be handed •wn in this science to the latest posterity. 
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