Under no circumstances could a plant be allowed to retain a native name—in other words, a name already given to it by an indigenous culture. “No sane person introduces primitive generic names,” he wrote, adding that “all barbarous names are
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“Every person is destroyed when we cease to see him; after which his next appearance is a new creation, different from that which immediately preceded it, if not from them all.”
― Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove
― Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove
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