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LINNAEUS 
Science, even by the highest in the King’s 
palace; 
God gave him the best and most honourable 
duty; precisely what he most desired in the 
world; 
gave him the wife he most desired, who kept 
house while he worked; 
gave him children, who were good and 
virtuous; 
gave him a son as successor; 
provided him with the greatest herbarium in 
the world, his greatest delight; 
bestowed goods and other possessions, so 
that there was nothing superfluous, nothing 
wanting; 
honoured him with a title of honour 
(Archiater), Star (Knight), Shield (Noble¬ 
man), name in the learned world; 
preserved him from fire; 
preserved his life beyond sixty years; 
let him gaze in His secret Council Chamber; 
let him see more of His created world than 
any mortal before him; 
bestowed upon him the greatest insight into 
the knowledge of Nature, more than anyone 
had hitherto enjoyed. 
“ The Lord has been with him whithersoever he 
went, and cut off all his enemies and has made him 
a great name, such as the greatest on earth. 
—2 Sam. vii. 9.” 
Thus clearly does his view appear in his “ Nemesis 
divina,” that God punishes transgression. A bad 
action must bear bad fruit, and punishment follows, 
often in the most striking manner. He did not leave 
an ordered account of this doctrine, but collected 
certain facts, which he considered supported his views, 
and as he expressly said, to warn his son against the 
sins which Nemesis would specially avenge. He 
