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greatest pleasure and profit from some of them, 

 and from none more than from the one given by 

 the great historian, Mr. Freeman, which dehghted 

 me most of all; and, if I had not been ashamed of 

 plagiarising, and if I had not been sure of being 

 found out, I should have been glad to have copied 

 very much of what Mr. Freeman said, simply 

 putting in the word science for history. There 

 w^as one notable passage, — " The difference be- 

 tween good and bad teaching mainly consists in 

 this, whether the words used are really clothed 

 with a meaning or not." And Mr. Freeman gives 

 a remarkable example of this. He says, when a 

 little girl was asked where Turkey was, she an- 

 swered that it was in the yard with the other 

 fowls, and that showed she had a definite idea 

 connected with the word Turkey, and was, so far, 

 worthy of praise. I quite agree with that com- 

 mendation; but what a curious thing it is that 

 one should now find it necessary to urge that this 

 is the be-all and end-all of scientific instruction — 

 the siiie qua non, the absolutely necessary condi- 

 tion, — and yet that it was insisted upon more than 

 two hundred years ago by one of the greatest 

 men science ever possessed in this country, William 

 Harvey. Harvey wrote, or at least published, 

 only two small books, one of which is the well- 

 known treatise on the circulation of the blood. 

 The other, the " Exercitationes de Generatione," 

 is less known, but not less remarkable. And not 



