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PREFACE. 
he has not been without his enemies, and 
that he hath fuffered in the fame way that 
all the mod: curious enquirers into nature 
have done in all ages. The tartnefs of his 
expreffions, which is Hill ftronger in the 
original, plainly proves that they have not 
ufed fair arguments againft him, but like 
interefted rivals, or men of a fuperficial 
underftanding, have endeavored to fub- 
jedl him and his labours to ridicule. But 
whatever has been his fate in his own 
countrey, as far as I know, his name is 
almoft univerfally mentioned with refpedl 
in all other parts of Europe. It is true, 
objections have been made to his innova- 
tions in other places befides Sweden 0 , 
which 
c Having fmce the firft edition of thefe tra&s met with 
BroweHius’ anfwer to Siegefbec, M. D. and botanical 
profefTor at Peterlburg ; who wrote againft the fexual 
fyftem of Linnaeus, i cannot omit quoting one of his 
obje&ions, which i imagine will divert the reader at the 
fame time, that it may ferve as an inftance how far zeal 
for old notions will fometimes carry men. The ob- 
jection is, that the laws of nature are overturned by 
Linnaeus, fince polygamy and adultery would be ac- 
cording to his fyftem flowed in the vegetable world ; 
for 
