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THE HAEVEIAN ORATICW. 751 



1. c. p. 3(^8, the world called the Earl of Northumberland's magi) 

 was ' Mr. Warrener/ And the MS. proceeds, ' He was the in- 

 ventor, probably, of the circulation of the blood, of which subject 

 he made a treatise, consisting of two books, which he sent to I>r. 

 Harvey, who epitomised and printed them in his own name; he 

 usually said that Dr. Harvey did not understand the motion of the 



heart, which was a perfect hydraulik Dr. Pain, that very 



ingenious and learned canon of Christ Church, told me that he had 

 seen and perused this book of Warrener's.' Finally, the excellent 

 ' Biographia Britannica' has embalmed "Wood's and Aubrey's story, 

 in the articles ' Harriott ' and 'Harvey,' pp. '2^42, and 2550, ed. 

 1757. Many a priori improbabilities will at once be seen to attach 

 to this story, and it is easy enough to discredit more than one of 

 the witnesses. But I have better than indirect evidence to bring 

 forward, and I will have the agreeable mental exercise of ex- 

 cogitating it to the ingenuity of my hearers, which ingenuity will 

 be sharpened, no doubt, by their regard for their own Harvey, and 

 strengthened by the belief that 



'Whatever records spring to light, 

 He never shall be shamed.' 



I may be asked, after this quotation, why I should have thought 

 it worth while to investigate Walter Warner's claims at all. I will 

 shelter myself, in the first instance, behind the example of Sir 

 George Ent, who, feeling and acting by Harvey as Launcelot in his 

 better days felt and acted by Arthur, took similar pains to set aside 

 the similar fable as to Harvey's indebtedness to Father Sarpi. 

 And, in the second place, I will remind my hearers that it was but 

 as recently as 1838 that an article appeared in the 'London and 

 Westminster Review,' in which the claims of the Italian monk just 

 mentioped were once again brought forward with surprising cdnj 

 fidence, plausibility, and ignorance. 



It was possible, I thought, that the same paltry but evil spirit 

 which animated Dutens in writing his ' Inquiry into the Origin of 

 the Discoveries attributed to the Moderns ' (1767 1), and in coming 



» Dutens was as well acquainted with the excellent work of William Wotton, 

 'Reflections upon Ancient and Modem Learning,' published in 1694, on the other 

 side of the question, as a little bitter mind can ever be with a work or the working 

 of a noble and generous one. His repeated references to it show this, as also the 

 unimprovable character of his shallow poverty-stricken spirit. 



