A lecture on the geography of plants / By John Barton.

  • John Barton
Date:
1827
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Credit: A lecture on the geography of plants / By John Barton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is intended to comprise those higher advantages which are connected with the moral and intel- lectual influence of the employment itself—its tendency to elevate, refine, and humanize the character—to exercise, without harassing the faculties—to divert the attention from mercenary and sensual objects to purer and nobler con- templations—to bring the mind within the tran- quil precincts of the Temple, whence it may readily, and often, and without violence, be called into the Sanctuary—if by this standard the value of our pursuits is to be measured, there are few of them, perhaps, that deserve to occupy a higher place than the study of nature. THE END. Harvey, Darton, and Cc. Printers, Gracechurch-street, London,