406 ON THE SCOPE AND INFLUENCE OF THE 
no bad consequences either to religion, or to the existing se- 
minaries of knowledge. Guanvitt was obliged to enter into 
a serious refutation of an assertion, that “ ArisrorLE had had 
“ more advantages for knowledge than the Royal Society, ei- 
“ ther had, or could have*.” ‘The panegyrics which these 
writers bestowed upon the Institution, and upon Lord Bacon 
as its Master, appear to have filled the followers of AristoTLE 
with a still more envenomed hate to both. The most forward 
of their champions was Dr Henry Stusse, who, after study- 
ing at Oxford, had served for some time in Scotland with the 
Army of the Parliament; but having on the Restoration made 
his peace with the Government, he was appointed King’s 
Physician for the Island of Jamaica, from whence he had late- 
ly returned, to practise in his own country. He was, according 
to Antuony Woop, “ the most noted Latinist and Grecian of 
“ his age, and a singular Mathematician ;” but he seems to 
have been as deficient in judgment as he was violent in temper ; 
which last defect, his biographer 1 in great simplicity ascribes to 
his “carrot-coloured hair +.” His publications against the Royal 
Society, and the whole body of Eenermientatines, were nume- 
rous, 
_— 
* « L desire the reader to know, that after Mr Josers Guanvitt had writ- 
»ten certain things against Aristorie, it was the desire of some scholars, that 
Rosert Crosse, a noted philosopher after the ancient way, should be brought 
acquainted with him. In 1667, Guanvitt was therefore conducted to his 
house, where Crosse did in a sufficient manner vindicate Aristorte; and did 
plentifully declaim against the proceedings of the Royal Society. Guanvitn 
being surprised, he did not then much oppose him ; but afterwards he did, to the 
purpose ; especially against this hypothesis of Crosse, that Artstorie had more 
advantages for Mistolede than the Royal Society, or all the present age had or could 
have, because he did totam peragrare Asiam.”—Athene Oxontenses, vol ii. p. 753. 
See the account ves Guanvitt himself gives of this conference, Plus Ultra, 
p: 4, 5. 
+ Woon’s Athen. Oxon. vol. ii. p. 562, 563. 
