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John Ray, born on November 29, 1627, and died on January 17, 1705, was a renowned British botanist and naturalist. He made significant contributions to the development of botanical taxonomy.

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“Every animal is providentially directed to the use of its proper weapon.”

Use Animal Weapons Instinct

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“The use of butterflies is to adorn the world and delight the eyes of men, to brighten the countryside, serving like so many golden spangles to decorate the fields.”

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“Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.”

Reason Use Instinct

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“He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.”

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“A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be forgotten, before we come to the last. So that he that uses many words for the explaining of any subject, doth, like the cuttle-fish, hide himself, for the most part, in his own ink.”

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Book:The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation

Source: The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation