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The Floral King. 161
The red vein of the discourse is again met with,
and contained in the preface to the later editions
of his Systeme Nature, the first part of which is
kept in the archives of the ‘‘ Linnean Society,” in
London, a draught written in the hand of Linnzus
himself, reads as follows :—
“T beheld only the back of the Infinite,Omniscient, |
and Almighty God, where He went forth, but I felt
dazed. I tracked the footsteps. over the fields of
nature, and I observed in every one—even those
which I scarcely could descry—an infinite wisdom
and power, an inconceivable perfection ; I saw there
how all animals were maintained by the vegetation,
the vegetation by the soil, the soil by the globe, how
the globe was turned night and day around the sun,
which gave it life, how the sun with the planets and
fixed stars rolled as on an axle, an inconceivable
number, and infinite space, and were kept up in the
void nothingness by the incomprehensible original
motive power, all things’ Being, the commander
and mainspring of all causes, the Lord and Master
of the world. If we wish to call Him Fate, we
commit no fault, for everything hangs on His finger;
II
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