30 The Higher Usefulness of Science 



have been written on this subject and the mighty force 

 it has been in the lives of millions of men and women, 

 I am persuaded the full meaning of it has not yet been 

 grasped. Not yet has Anthropology accepted the ob- 

 jective phenomena of man's nature to which the doc- 

 trine answers with sufficient insight and freedom from 

 doubt; and not yet has Christian theology searched 

 deeply and broadly enough into the psychology of the 

 emotional nature of individual human beings apper- 

 taining to their relations with one another. 



Our study will bring us to touch upon this transcend- 

 ently important matter later. For the present, William 

 Harvey and his work primarily, and William Shake- 

 speare and his work secondarily, must occupy us. 



Taking up Harvey and his work first, we may begin 

 by calling attention to the fact that while all biologists 

 recognize that Harvey was the very embodiment of 

 modernity in science so far as concerns the spirit and 

 method of his work on the circulation, few notice that 

 he was also a positively religious man. The testimony 

 to this effect is ample. 



We now look in the briefest way possible to so much 

 of Harvey's work as pertains vitally to this discourse. 

 The discovery of the circulation of the blood was the 

 first great demonstration by rigorous methods of ob- 

 servation, experimentation and reasoning, of the va- 

 rious anatomico-physiological systems that enter into 

 the composition of each higher organism. Harvey did 

 not discover the several elements of the circulatory 



