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the founder of modern physiology. Even the 

 genial conformist of the world, after his manner 

 when he is scared, had turned brutal ; he felt that 

 the old conceptions upon which society was built 

 for him, were suspected, and therewith society 

 itself beginning to crack and split, yet he did 

 not see that now by science only could society be 

 recreated. 



In Italy the Cinque Cento had taken its birth 

 and nourishment chiefly from Latin sources and 

 tradition. It regarded symmetry of form and rhe- 

 torical modes of passion ; elegance was preferred to 

 matter, and style to knowledge. Such a culture had 

 not the seeds of life in it ; in the middle of the 

 sixteenth century its enthusiasms waned, its philo- 

 sophy fell into routine, its style into mannerism; 

 ibut science, not philosophy, not the Faith, was 

 the heir of the Middle Ages. Science is not of 

 Latin but of Greek inheritance, its sources are 

 Greek ; and with -the westward swarm of the 

 Greeks their older boons of eloquence and beauty 

 were rivalled by their newer gifts of scholarship 

 and natural knowledge. In France the leaders of 

 ^his school were the Huguenots, the flower of 

 the nation ; in the Catholic reaction of the six- 

 teenth century France scorched her own bloom, 



