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We have yet to add the investigations in regard to the history of evolution of the single organisms, as well as those in comparative anatomy, which in former centuries were begun by scientists like Swammerdam and Boerhave and carried more nearly to completion by K. E. von Baer, Carus, and others.
Malo, and educated in Paris, and in Leyden under Boerhave; he died in Berlin, whither Frederick the Great had called him after he had been driven out of his native land and from Holland. On La Mettrie cf. If man is nothing but body, there is no other pleasure than that of the body.
Well, I open my Ephemerides, form my scheme under the suitable planet, and the genie obeys the invocation and appears. Genie is a misshapen dwarf, with a huge jolter-head like that of Boerhave on the Bridge, his limbs and body marvellously shrunk and disproportioned. "Sir Dwarf," said I, undauntedly, "thy head is very large, and thy feet and limbs somewhat small in proportion." Genie.
The revolution extirpates kingship in the king, aristocracy in the noble, despotism in the soldier, superstition in the priest, barbarity in the judge, in a word whatever is tyranny in whatever is tyrant. The operation is frightful, the revolution performs it with a sure hand. As to the quantity of sound flesh that it requires, ask Boerhave what he thinks of it.
He wrote in a pious, formal style, with beautiful, simple outbursts of a faith that, fearful of falling away, ascribed all things to the glory of the Creator; and embodied his observations and studies in his great work "Bybel der Natuure," which the doctor Boerhave, a century later, caused to be translated from the Dutch into Latin under the title of "Biblia Naturae."
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