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third is the animal spirit, whose seat is in the brain and nerves." 

 Now, he goes on to suppose that the blood, having received in its 

 passage through the lungs the breath of life, is sent by the left 

 ventricle into the arteries. The purest part ascends to the base 

 of the brain, where it is more refined and changed from the vital 

 to the animal spirit, and acts upon the mass of the brain, which 

 is incapable of reasoning without its stimulus. From this, and 

 much more which is unintelligible, it appears plain that Servetus 

 had read the schoolmen, and was imbued with their methods of 

 reasoning. 



To get published a book filled, as the Christianismi Restitutio 

 was, with theological opinions repugnant alike to Catholics and 

 Reformers, was no easy task. And in effecting his purpose Ser- 

 vetus exercised great caution and ingenuity. At Vienne, where 

 he had lived for twelve years, was a publisher named Arnoullet, 

 whom, with the printer Geroult, Servetus took into his con- 

 fidence. He engaged not only to pay the whole expenses, but 

 also to add a gratuity of a hundred crowns. It was arranged 

 that the printing should not be carried on at the ordinary place 

 of business, but that a small house at some distance should be 

 used for the purpose. The printing was commenced on St. 

 Michael's day, and in three or four months one thousand copies 

 of the book were ready. 



No name appeared on the title-page, but at the end of the 

 book immediately over the date the initials " M. S. V." were 

 placed, and at page 199, at the commencement of the dialogue 

 between Michael and Petrus, the latter is made to say : " Here 

 he is ; Servetus is here, of whom I was speaking/' The reference 

 made in the preface to former works on the same subject, and the 

 introduction of Michael and Peter as interlocutors, just as had 

 been done in the Dialogue on the Trinity twenty years before, 

 rendered it easy to establish that Michael Servetus and Michael 

 Villeneuve were one and the same man. 



The whole stock of books, when ready, was made up into bales 

 of one hundred each, and sent away, the greater part to Lyons, to 

 the care of a type-founder named Pierre Merrin, who believed 

 that the packets contained nothing but blank paper. It was 

 probably intended to forward them, as soon as opportunity 

 offered, to Genoa and Venice. 



Meanwhile, unknown to Servetus, a copy of the work, and a 

 letter giving particulars of the printing of it, were dispatched to 

 Calvin at Geneva, probably by some one at Lyons, who had 

 friends at Vienne, and who was in the confidence of both Ser- 

 vetus and Calvin. Armed with this evidence against the Span- 

 iard, Calvin caused a letter to be written to Vienne by a young 

 man named William Trie, denouncing Servetus, and inclosing 



