Note B — THOMAS JEFFERSON, AS SEEN BY THE LIGHT OF 1863.
Reading edition
A statue was erected to Buffon with the inscription:
Naturam amplectitur omnem.
Some sceptic wrote underneath:
Qui trop embrasse, mal étreint;
a saying which we do not care to translate, but which is too good a description of Jefferson's scientific acquirements to be omitted.