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Show humility. He will perceive that there ar far more excellent qualities in the studen than preciseness and infallibility; that guess is often more fruitful than an indisputable affirmation, and that a dream ma let us deeper into the secret of nature tha a hundred concerted experiments For th problem to b solve ar pre cisely those which the physiologist and th naturalist omit to state. It is not so pertinent to ma of th anima whenc to kno all th kingdom and wheret i a individual it is to kno thi tyrannizin unity in his constitution, which evermor separates and classifies things, endeavouring to reduce the most diverse to one form ‘When I behold a rich landscape, it is les to my purpose to recite correctly the orde an superpositio of th strata, than t know why all thought of multitude is los in a tranquil sense of unity & I canno greatly honor minuteness in details, s long as there isno hint to explain the relation between things and thoughts; no ra upon the mefaphysics of conchology, o botany, of the arts, to show the relation o the forms of flowers, shells, animals, architecture, to the mind, and build scienc 8 |