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The Floral King. 209
love, of everything. If I may be more circum-
stantial and quote an example, the tape-worm (here
followed a figure of the tape-worm, sketched by the
letter-writer.) Each part of the worm has its own
life. If these joints be severed, still each joint lives
and increases. Which part then is the more than
any other part of the worm? The last joint pro-
duces its offspring, that one, one in its turn, and
so ever on. There is no more difference in other
animals, than that each joint immediately falls oft
from one another, but if the navel-string became
continuous the children would be strung togethe:
like tape-worms, and then would it appear more
evident that they were one. Brother Petrus, and
the other children, are thus nothing else than your-
self, dear Madam, with my dear father-in-law,
defunct. God bless the venerable old tree, which
‘ has flourished so well on the estate of Sweden; may
He allow it to remain constant until times remote,
and rooted in blessings, that its branches on all
sides may spread to an ornament for the country,
and that no branch may wither, for that would
immediately make the tree deformed and unseemly,
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