22 A BIOGEAPHICAL MEMOIR 



mankind, and he could only have been sustained through- 

 out so long a period of his life by the sincerity, earnest- 

 ness, and thorough purity of his zeal, in the prosecu- 

 tion of so many and such multitudinous attempts to 

 better the moral and intellectual condition of society at 

 large. 



Samuel Hartlib had to pay the penalty of the fame 

 he acquired through his numerous publications and his 

 various projects and undertakings, by being made the 

 subject of satire. A pamphlet came out in 1660, under 

 the title of — 



" Olbia :* The new Island lately discovered; with its 

 Eeligion and Eites of Worship ; Laws, Customs, and 

 Government ; Characters and Language ; with Educa- 

 tion of their Children in their Sciences, Arts, and 

 Manufactures ; with other things remarkable. 



"By a Christian Pilgrim, driven by Tempest from 

 Civita Vecchia, or some other parts about Eome ; 

 through the Straits, into the Atlantick Ocean. The 

 first part. From the original. For Samuel Hartlib, in 

 Ax- Yard, Westminster, and John Bartlet, of the Guilt- 

 Cup near Austin's-Gate, London ; and in Westminster 

 Hall." 4to, 380 pages. The second part was never 

 published. 



In a letter dated Dec. 17, 1660, which Hartlib wrote to 



* In Lowndes's Bibliographer's Manual, and also in the last 

 edition of the same, Olhia is mistakenly named as one of HartHb's 

 own publications. 



