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The Floral King. 117
without their perceiving whence the road was to
lead; now after having trudged so long, we begin
to behold the palace of nature, and to look into
its formerly closed chambers. Then we discern, in
the greatest confusion of the created things, the
greatest order of the Creator, nature’s economy,
nature’s policy; the Creator’s miracles, in fine all,
even the most contemptible, and the most poisonous
are employed for man’s pleasure, use and necessities
where everything is ordained to some certain pur-
pose, and where nothing becomes unnecessary of
all which God has granted us in the three realms
of nature. But that I-may farther follow the pro-
gress of my sciences, I find the earliest according
to palingenesia literarum, worked to discover the
created things, and to carve them into figures and
descriptions. The descriptions were then wrapped
in long and diffuse orations which now are left as
naked as they were born, with as many words as
are significant, without twaddle, that is with
characteristic descriptions, which exclude the com-
mon natural structure; it is now no longer said
about animals, that the head is placed before the
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