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MEMOIR OF LINN.SUS. 
continue in the career of reputation and prosperity, 
without exciting envy, jealousy, and opposition, from 
various quarters, and the attacks of his adversaries 
did not fail to wound his ambition. Yet, remember- 
ing the advice of his venerable friend Boerhaave, 
and being of too high a cast of mind to entertain 
asperity, or indulge in splenetic invectives, he wisely 
resolved to abstain from controversy. He took an- 
other method to counteract the injurious influence of 
hi3 opponents, and it would be well if all naturalists 
would act in the same dignified way when repelling 
ill-natured attacks. He thought that something was 
due to his countrymen, to show that all men of learn- 
ing did not agree with his libellers, and he published 
a little work giving a brief sketch of his life, a list of 
his works, and the various testimonials given to his 
talents by the most eminent men of the day. The 
title was worthy of its author — Orbis Eruditi Judi- 
cium de Caroli Linncei, M.D., Scripiis.” He made 
no comments, but allowed opinions to be formed from 
authority that could not be contradicted, and relied 
upon the judgment which would be given upon the 
words of a Boerhaave, a Dillenius, a Sauvauges, a 
Jussieu, and a Haller. 
He was not, however, above being corrected, when 
done with a proper spirit ; and was perfectly aware 
that in the vast range he had undertaken, perfection 
could not at once be obtained, and that some faults 
were almost inevitable. In a letter to Haller, he says, 
“ who could perambulate, without erring, the wide- 
