vi] Sylvius and his Pupils. 173 



He thus stands forth at the close of the seventeenth century 

 as the founder of 'animism,' which doctrine, though his sensitive 

 soul fell back later to the lower stage of 'a vital principle,' 

 maintained itself in many minds through the two succeeding 

 centuries, and exists at the present day. 



The other man, a man of a wholly different mind, was 

 Hermann Boerhaave ; but of him it will be best to speak in 

 connection with his even more illustrious pupil Albert von 

 Haller, and in this aspect he belongs wholly to the eighteenth 

 century. 



