![]() Few lives have given to the world such lessons of cheerfulness, of perseverance, and of untiring industry. Few have had such great struggles with poverty few have come off such conquerors. The history of Linnæus is, indeed, a romance. Too little in our own country do we treasure the homes of those who give honor to the nation. The dark, closed blinds are as he left them, for Sweden would not change one thing about the precious home. Under these dark poplars, enormous in size, he taught the pupils who came from all parts of the world to hear him. Nearby is the Botanic Garden, which Linnæus so loved and developed, and the two-and-a-half-story stuccoed house where the great naturalist lived and entertained princes. Near by is the monument of dark porphyry, with the plain, shaven face in bronze, wreathed with laurel, and the words “ Carolo a Linné Botanicorum Principi Amici et Discipuli, 1798.” ![]() ![]() In the Swedish town of Upsala sleeps the man who, more than any other, has immortalized Upsala University, and helped to make Sweden an intellectual and studious country. ![]()
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