The botanist being the botanical part of a course of lectures on natural history, delivered in the university at ...

... it puts a dry subject into a pleasant dress; and explaining the principles of vegetation as well as of Botany, it will be a better preparation to a student than the elementary books generally are. That it's sale should have succeeded only South of Connecticut proves two things; one which I have long observed, that the scale of science cultivated in the east is more limited than that to the South, the clergy, who are afraid of science every where, controuling it there. The second, that the fell hatred of party spirit thinks no persecution too mean ... (TJ to Waterhouse, 9 March 1813)

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