36 Th# Higher Usefulness of Science 



organisms. We have emphasized the fact that the dis- 

 covery of the circulation was a preeminent forward 

 step in men's perception of the order, the unification 

 there is in his own individual being. The studies on 

 generation coupled with those on the circulation (for 

 whatever subject engaged him, Harvey never neglected 

 to compare man with all the creatures, high or low, he 

 could get hold of) undoubtedly contributed greatly to 

 man's perception of himself as a member of the great 

 system of the living world. The demonstration of the 

 circulation was a revelation of a prime unity within 

 the individual man. The studies on generation, while 

 resulting in no single discovery of first rank, were 

 definitely on the road to the demonstration of the 

 individual's unity with organic nature as a whole. 

 "By the same stages in the development of every ani- 

 mal," he said, "passing through the constitutions of 

 all, I may say ovum, worm, embryo it acquires addi- 

 tional perfection in each." He certainly came very 

 near the now familiar truth that the egg is the starting 

 point in the life career of almost all animals. 



Is it not obvious then, that by the end of the great 

 era we are now commemorating, men were coming to 

 see more through the work of Harvey than through 

 that of any other one person, that the ancient motto, 

 Know Thyself, could not be restricted to the temples 

 of religion and philosophy but must be placed in those 

 of science as well? 



Now as to whether the work of Shakespeare likewise 



