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Norwich , Sir , January 31 , 1820 . THANK you for the attention you I have paid to my suggestions , relative to some plants mentioned in
Scripture , in your valuable Repository for October last [ XIV . 607 ] . Your notice of this , and other parts of my two pamphlets , relating to the Cambridge Botanical Professorship , [ XIV . 608 , ] induces me to make your work the vehicle of an additional observation or
two , as well as of a few corrections , which it is my duty to point out . I shall begin witn the latter . It seems the Hebrew professor , alluded to in p . 33 of the second pamphlet , is married , and , therefore ,
cannot at present hold his Fellowship . The only point essential to my argument is , that he holds his professorship without lecturing , even by deputy . An error in p . 88 of the same pamphlet is , justly enough , pointed out by Professor Monk . MwX / yov is there
translated " the colour of honey , " instead of " a ripe apple . The idea , indeed , is ihuch the same , and the Latin reader will easily perceive the cause of the blunder , which originated
in an ambiguity that Ainsworth has taken some pains to jjuard against . Any one might have avoided this blunder , by turning either to Ainsworth or a Greek Lexicon or a translation
of Dioscorides ; and I ought to have been more careful . Those who boast of their learning do , now and then , commit worse mistakes , see p . 89 of the said pamphlet ; see also the Classical Journal . I must here remark ,
that Professor Monk , by a subsequent defence of the Review , whose falsehood and ignorance I have exposed , takes upon himself all the responsibility of its author .
In endeavouring to shew ourdSaviour ' s " lilies of Mi& field '* < to be ^ probabl y the Amaryllis luteti , of winch opinion I antique iitun < ih satife fifed vas tftie nature of the c&sedtall allowy I omi ^ ed to support m ^ hjtoaihfiB ^ which I Iia ^ ualriady laid befom ihe \ mb \ icy i&Prodr > iyFlarte Gr&aaryl % &l . D * . * Sibfchoirppflri kd ^ 'MSS , notes ^/ hfta recordedj tbk ^ fiedhnve ^ mtliv areiknownv' ihftfa ^ whmtany about Athens ^ where they abound , by the name of dypio npiva , or field Mtetj nor doea he jappe&unto have / found that native applied , atarv > etiiy Mh&t plant .
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They are among the popular ornamental wild flowers of modern Greece , and the Turks plant them on the graves of their friends . Whether any Syrian or Christian tradition may have handed down their name , or any
idea of sanctity attached to them , to the present inhabitants of Attica , can only be surmised , and must be left to the j udgment of the reader . ( Jne subject remains to be noticed , on which I am most anxious to be
rightly understood . In your Repository for September last , ( XIV . 586 , ) the expression of my being •* Catholic enough in conscience , ' may be thought to hint a degree of laxity , with regard to the ground on which I have taken the Sacrament at Church . This is far from
my meaning . In the absolute rejection of every shadow of human authority in religious matters , on which not only the rights of Protestant Dissenters , but of all Protestant Churches , essentially depend , I set at nought every idea attached to the communion of
Christians , beyond what Christ himself expressed and commanded . To partake of the Lord's Supper with his disciples , seems to me a plain duty . It is , no doubt , natural to associate , if we can , with those whose sentiments
suit our own ; especially in a sacred rite which has , perhaps , more of sentiment in it than any other . But I am satisfied that no differences of opinion should , on this occasion especially , be brought into view " . If churches
or sects require badges , let them seek some less exceptionable ones . It is impossible that what our Lord commanded us to do €€ in remembrance of him , " should be intended or permitted by him to be a mark of difference amongst ourselves . The very idea is impious ; and making this
religious rite a badge of political distinctionsy isrfcfcill more profane . I wonder hoiwrODiisenters can thus abjectly bow to human authority . On the contrary , - < £ feJttfefefaftotp-:. « ae- the duty of all honest phrifltifins , koiwever they may differ , if they a ^ rde ? vin )» Bub mission to the supr&mb authority of Jesus , to take the hm ^ mt iemti ^ metk ^* ' * Such is my feeling , a « Mb * o ; jC ^ BejvteTa formerly used to ithinkj thtJiigh > Uhey » tnight honestly believe th ^ u pito ^ an which they differed from < the (^ liijRehue ^ se ntial to salvation ; the ^ bh <* rrencte of a wig , a surplice , or anyorgan , for instance . The univers al
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92 Sir J . E . Smith on the Botanical Professorship Controversy .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1820, page 92, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2485/page/28/
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