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Benjamin Stillingfleet
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Benjamin Stillingfleet (1702–1771) was an English botanist, polymath, and writer.
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Each moss,Each shell, each crawling insect, holds a rankImportant in the plan of Him who fram'dThis scale of beings; holds a rank, which lostWould break the chain, and leave behind a gapWhich nature's self would rue.
Translation of Isaac Isaacson Biberg, The Œconomy of Nature, Uppsala, 4 Mar. 1749; printed in Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Natural History, &c., 3rd ed. (London, 1775), p. 128
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Category:People from Norfolk
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