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(1888) [MARC] Author: Albert Alberg
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116 The Floral King.

but few good ears of corn. Everything considered
in the dead languages, in the erudition of the
ancients, or placitis. ;

“When, on the contrary, I turn myself to the
approaching time, I see only the practical and
fruitful sciences, and that which forms their
foundation. I see sheer Natural History,
Astronomy, Physics, Mechanics, Social Economy,
Chemistry, Medicine, Arts, Manufactures, &c.,
which reflect through man the wisdom and omni-
potence of the Creator, as we are being solaced and
sustained by this work. It must have proceeded
with sciences like with plants. The plants begin
from the smallest germs, grow to leaves and stalks,
but at last bloom and bear fruit.

‘*He who would read sciences, must first learn
the alphabet, then spelling, then learn phrases and
glossary; at last he understands the text. But to
come to my own subject or natural science, I find
the same growth in it. The ancients confined
themselves to the enumeration and specification
of stones, plants, animals; more they did not

accomplish; it was all a higgledy-piggledy work,

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