" And thus hauing through God's assis/ance discoursed some-
" what at large of Grasses, Herbes, Shrubs, Trees, and Mosses, and
" certaine Excrescences of the earth, with other things moe, incident
" to the historic thereof, we conclude and end our present Volume."
Gerard's Herbal, 1633 edn.
" Floures through their beautie, variety of colour, and exquisite
" forme, do bring to a liberall and gentle manly minde, the remem-
" brance of honestie, comelincsse, and all kindes of vertues. For
" it would be an unseemely and filthiething (as a certaine wise man
" saith) for him that doth looke upon and handle faire and beauti-
" full things, and who frequenteth and is conuersant in faire and
" beautifull places, to have his minde not faire, but filthie and
" deformed."
IBID.
" Whatever science can establish that it has a right to establish ;
" more than a right, it lias a duty. Whatever science can examine
" into, that it has a right to examine into. If there be things which
" we are not intended fo know, be assured that we shall never know'
" them."
Sir Oliver Lodge : Man and the Universe.
" Multitudes of phenomena suggest that the physical universe
" is not so much a Thing as a Thought—and Thought implies a
" Thinker."
Sir Ambrose Fleming.