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Excerpt from An Introduction to Physiological and Systematical Botany
Rousseau, a great judge of the human heart and observer of human manners, has remarked, that when science is transplanted from the mountains and woods into cities and worldly so ciety, it loses its genuine charms, and becomes a source of envy,jealousy-and rivalship. This is still more4 true if it be cultivated as a mere source of emolument. But the man who loves botany for its own sake knows no such feelings, nor is be dependent for happiness on situations or scenes that favour their growth. He would find himself neither solitary nor desolate, had he no other companion than a mountain daisy, that modest crimson-tipped flower, so sweetly sung by one of Nature's own poets. The humblest weed or moss will ever afford him somethingsto examine or to illustrate, and a great deal to admire. Introduce him to the magnificence of a tropical forest, the enamelled meadows of the Alps, or the wonders of New Holland, and his thoughts will not dwell much.
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Excerpt from An Introduction to Physiological and Systematical Botany
The'formerisa compendium of Linnaean learn ing, the latter a store oflingenious philosophy but they were designed for philosophers, and are not calculated for evéry reader. Linnaeus and his scholars have generally written in Latin. They addressed themselves to physicians, to anato mists, to philosophers, little thinking that their science would ever be the amusing pursuit of the -young, the elegant and the refined, or they would have treated the subject differently. It ap pears to me, therefore, (that an introductory pub lication is still desirable in this country, on an original plan, easy, comprehensive, and fit for general use; and such'were the reasons which first prompted me tothe undertaking.
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