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He
belonged
to
that
natural
,
humorous
school
who
took
for
their
motto
in
the
seventeenth
century
the
aphorism
uttered
by
one
of
their
number
in
1653
,
--
"
To
despise
flowers
is
to
offend
God
.
"
From
that
premise
the
school
of
tulip-fanciers
,
the
most
exclusive
of
all
schools
,
worked
out
the
following
syllogism
in
the
same
year
:
--
"
To
despise
flowers
is
to
offend
God
.
"
The
more
beautiful
the
flower
is
,
the
more
does
one
offend
God
in
despising
it
.
"
The
tulip
is
the
most
beautiful
of
all
flowers
.
"
Therefore
,
he
who
despises
the
tulip
offends
God
beyond
measure
.
"
By
reasoning
of
this
kind
,
it
can
be
seen
that
the
four
or
five
thousand
tulip-growers
of
Holland
,
France
,
and
Portugal
,
leaving
out
those
of
Ceylon
and
China
and
the
Indies
,
might
,
if
so
disposed
,
put
the
whole
world
under
the
ban
,
and
condemn
as
schismatics
and
heretics
and
deserving
of
death
the
several
hundred
millions
of
mankind
whose
hopes
of
salvation
were
not
centred
upon
the
tulip
.
We
can
not
doubt
that
in
such
a
cause
Boxtel
,
though
he
was
Van
Baerle
's
deadly
foe
,
would
have
marched
under
the
same
banner
with
him
.
Mynheer
van
Baerle
and
his
tulips
,
therefore
,
were
in
the
mouth
of
everybody
;
so
much
so
,
that
Boxtel
's
name
disappeared
for
ever
from
the
list
of
the
notable
tulip-growers
in
Holland
,
and
those
of
Dort
were
now
represented
by
Cornelius
van
Baerle
,
the
modest
and
inoffensive
savant
.
Engaging
,
heart
and
soul
,
in
his
pursuits
of
sowing
,
planting
,
and
gathering
,
Van
Baerle
,
caressed
by
the
whole
fraternity
of
tulip-growers
in
Europe
,
entertained
nor
the
least
suspicion
that
there
was
at
his
very
door
a
pretender
whose
throne
he
had
usurped
.
