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Benjamin Stillingfleet Quotes

1702–1771 England

Benjamin Stillingfleet (1702–1771) was an English botanist, polymath, and writer.

England
Botanists
Non-fiction authors
Poets

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Each moss,
Each shell, each crawling insect, holds a rank
Important in the plan of Him who fram'd
This scale of beings; holds a rank, which lost
Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap
Which nature's self would rue.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Benjamin Stillingfleet (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.