“By firm immutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms, and kindled into life; How Love and Sympathy with potent charm Warm the cold heart, the lifted hand disarm; Allure with pleasures, and alarm with pains, And bind Society in golden chains.” FirstsHeartHandsPainFormLawScienceCausesNatureNaturalPleasureColdRoseWarmGoldenChainsFirmCharmImmortalMuseImpressStrifeAlarmsElementalsAllureCold Heart Book:The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts ... The Economy of Vegetation, and The Loves of the Plants. With Philosophical Notes Source: The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts ... The Economy of Vegetation, and The Loves of the Plants. With Philosophical Notes
“We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.” NeedsMindHumansWellsBookLawHonorRoseUniversityEntertainmentDuesFormerCodeLatterHuman MindInstructionReignRecreationVinesOlivesCannonsMyrtleJustinian Author:Honore de Balzac