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a un Lucrece. Pardonnez je vous prie, o Sage venerabte! leurs 
defauts , car je les ai compooés ct la hdte dans la compagnie de 
vos pro fonds Doc.teurs . Que les Jteurs , les oiseaux , les poisson* 
et la s Faurie Suédoise soil toujours celebre par vos éerils, 
Smith, J, E., i företalet till A Dissertation on the Sexes of Plants, transla- 
ted from the Latin of Linnjeus, Lond. 1786, 8:0, kallar 
L,iNT\é p. x. först the Prince of Naturalists , ocli säger sedan 
em bonom p. xi. sq: 
Like all otlier great men who have distingvished tlieinselves 
above the rest of minkind, Linn^us has had his enemies, al- 
though few have bad more friends. It is not wontlcrful tbat the 
innovations he made sbould alarm those who thonght themselve* 
his superiors in the science whirh he taught, and who had long 
been dealing out the opinions of others , withont daring to think 
for tliemselves. His opponents of this kind, as well as those 
who on making use of their judgment disapproved of his pub- 
lications, are now , with their Works, for the most part gone ofl 
the stage. The fulility of their objections has beeu repeatedly 
shewn by many of LlNNjEUS’s pupils and adiuirers, he himself 
scarce ever deigning to notice them, and trusting for his justifi- 
cation to time alone, Its decision has been most complelely in 
his farour. He lived to enjoy the higbest honours and rewards 
that his counlry could bestow, and to see his system, by beco- 
ming universal, contribute more to the advancement of his dar- 
ling study, thau the united labours of all mankind before him» 
