" To the wise, a fact is true poetry, and the most beautiful of
fables."
Emerson.
" Her divine skill taught me this,
' That from everything I saw
I could some instruction draw,
And raise pleasure to the height,
Through the meanest objects' sight.' "
G. Wither.
"One advantage of the study of Nature is that it is inex-
haustible; but it boasts a still greater that, so far as I have been
able to observe, it never loses its relish at the decline of life."
Sir J. E Smith, Founder of the Linnean Society.
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