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LINNAEUS 
latter half. Such, for instance, was the prevailing 
lively desire for increased knowledge of nature's 
productions in different quarters. Linne had 
imparted his glowing naturalist ardour to those 
seeking education, both men and women, high and 
low, and beyond the boundaries of Sweden. False 
impressions prevailed even among the learned of his 
own country, for instance, that nature could only 
be understood from hair-splitting interpretation of 
Biblical Hebrew and Greek texts, or from the 
classical writers. Then appeared Linne, and his 
activity can be likened to a fresh wind, driving away 
mists and showing a free prospect over a sunny land¬ 
scape. Natural science, formerly a neglected child, 
who seldom came into view, soon became a cherished 
possession of high and low, old and young. The 
consideration now bestowed on natural history forms 
a sharp contrast to the neglect it often encountered 
in former days, and proceeds in no small degree from 
the glory of its days of rejoicing during the Linnean 
period. The memory of Sweden's celebrated son 
will be treasured by his countrymen, 
So long as a flower its scent shall exhale, 
On mountain, in woodland, in calm-sheltered vale. 
—After Frondin. 
