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Venus sine concubitu / [A.P. Buchan].

  • Alexander Peter Buchan
Date:
1818
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Venus sine concubitu / [A.P. Buchan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tion of the various forms of animal and vegetable existence ; thus, by indesi- nent re-production, maintaining ani- mated nature in a state of perpetual youth, beauty, and perfection. This truth is finely illustrated by the ancient hieroglyphic of Saturn, or Time devouring his children ; the sym- bol of which, is the circular serpent with the tail in its mouth, and its best \ verbal explanation is found, Eccle- siastes i. 4, “ One generation cometh, and another passeth away: but the earth endureth for ever.” The efflorescence of plants is, in fact, the indication of their puberty, or attainment of the age, when they are capable of propagating their spe- cies. The flower, or corolla, is ana-
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