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30 The Floral King.
Senior, was known also as a poly-historian, and
at this period was busily engaged in writing a
book of great erudition about the trees and
plants mentioned in the Bible.
The little treatise which so captivated the old
learned professor only consisted of a few pages,
which Linnzus, as a mark of respect, tendered
his patron, Olof Rudbeck, on the 1st of January,
1730, but which like a flash of lightning revealed
the mystery that shrouded from man’s eye the
secret that herbs and plants generate in much the
same manner as do the animal world, of which
grand truth Carl Linnzus had long had a fore-
shadowing, and now, after close observation by
the light of his genius, it at last stood clear and
demonstrated before him.
Linnezus’s sexual system of grouping the
plants according to their means of propagation
at once revolutionized the accepted classifications
in botany, and is perhaps the work bespeaking
the greatest penetration of his felicitous genius.
He was not yet twenty-five years of age when
he made known this, his great discovery, and
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