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tie was afterwards associated with Watteville in foiindinp^ the system of 
the ‘‘Unitas Fratram.” tie established the village of llerriihut; and 
from this little colony many missionaries were sent out to all parts of 
the world to instruct the heathen. At Germantown, and other places 
near, he held frequent religious discourses, in 1742, and in Philadelphia 
in a Latin speech renounced his title of Count, resuming his original 
family name, and was afterwards known among the Quakers as Friend 
Lewis.” LTnder his immediate agency, the colony at Bethlehem was 
founded. He died at Herriihut in 1760, after having established his 
missions in all parts of the globe, and sent out a thousand individuals to 
proclaim his doctrines. Such a distinguished example, “ the ancestor of 
his family and the father of his denomination, ” deeply impressed the 
imagination of Schweinitz, who very early conceived the laudable desire 
of entering upon a career of similar activity. This was the initiative 
step toward literary and scientilic acquisitions. ‘‘ Endowed with the 
powers of conception of no ordinary cast, he gave early indications of 
his bias for intellectual pursuits, and by his assiduity more than com¬ 
pensated for any deficiency in the means of improvement then within 
his reach. The clear and explicit manner in which his juvenile ideas 
were expressed encouraged his fond parents to indulge the hope that he 
would one day become an active instrument for advancing the cause to 
which themselves and their predecessors had been so assiduously devoted. 
Being the eldest son of his parents, and, at that period, of delicate con¬ 
stitution, it is reasonable to suppose that maternal influences had much 
to do in the development of his faculties. It was, moreover, on the side 
of his mother that he was related to Watteville and Zinzendorf; hence 
we may readily suppose that from this source he derived the partiality 
for addressing to his friends short speeches and little sermons 
which, it is said, occasionally amused the circle around his pater¬ 
nal fireside. We are aware that, in general, anticipations founded on an 
exhibition of precocious talents are apt to be signally disappointed ; but 
when the display is that of an intellectual tendency, rather than a mere 
capacity for some one attainment, and when the spirit for mental labor 
is found capable of being directed into different channels at the instance 
of others and does not consist of a blind instinct, compelling the pos¬ 
sessor to follow some narrow path of intellectual effort, the augury 
may, we apprehend, be received with less doubt and uncertainty. Such 
was the case with Schweinitz.” He was placed, in 1787, in the institu¬ 
tion of the Moravian community at Nazareth. Here he remained for 
eleven years, and during this time was, as a pupil, most industrious, 
observant and successful. He, in subsequent times, referred to this 
enjoyable period with much pleasure. It was here, also, that his 
amiable and social traits received a happy development. It was at Naz¬ 
areth, though before he was a pupil in the institution, that he refers his 
(irst impulse to the study of botany. He visited the place in (u)mpany 
with his grandfather. Ihsliop de Watteville. and noticed on the table in 
