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THE PARK PINETUM. 
[Part V. 
which we are indebted to our immortal Davy. 
I say this with the deepest veneration for the 
brilliant talents and undaunted perseverance of 
those who have devoted themselves, or who still 
do devote themselves, to sciences of the first im¬ 
portance to the existence of man and the honour 
of his Creator; and with a heartfelt disgust at 
those who, pluming themselves on their progress 
in lower but more certain science, presume to 
taunt with their want of success philosophers 
who have attempted a labour, perhaps super¬ 
human,—to throw light on the-hitherto impene¬ 
trable darkness which has enveloped the pro¬ 
cesses of vitality — to delineate the actually 
progressing operations of the hand of the Al¬ 
mighty in his noblest, most finished, most com¬ 
plicated works. It is the unthinking only who, 
becoming inured to the universally perpetual 
recurrence of the generation and growth of 
organic existences, take these most mysterious 
miracles as matters of course, and behold them 
with indifference. 
THE END. 
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