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with the court must have constantly brought him into relation 

 with the statesmen of those stormy times. His legacy to his 

 'good friend Mr. Thomas Hobbs, to buy something to keepe in 

 remembrance ' of him, is touching, even if trifling, evidence in the 

 same direction. 



Travel, which even in our day confers a kind of culture peculiar 

 to itself, must have been doubly necessary in days when, in the 

 absence of the steamship and the railway, an insular position must 

 have kept its inhabitants very nearly as inaccessible to ' the thoughts 

 that move mankind,' as it had happily kept them to the Armada. 

 Sir George Ent's interesting and entirely trustworthy account of 

 the interview with Harvey which resulted in the publication of the 

 treatise 'De Generatione,' will show any one who will consult it that 

 Harvey had drawn from his opportunities an insight into what 

 might be expected, and what since his time to some extent has been 

 realised, from enlarged opportunities of observing not only ' men, 

 manners, cities, climates, governments,^ but also the wonderful facts 

 of the unequal allotment, in the various parts of the earth, of useful 

 inorganic products, and of that mystery of mysteries, the distribution 

 of organic life. (See 'Works/ ed. 1766, p. i6:^; ed. Dr. Willis, 

 p. 146.) 



Having been thus fortunate in securing for himself all the 

 advantages which the various educational agencies of his age would 

 furnish, he added on to all that they had effected, or could effect, 

 the yet more elevating and glorious discipline of long sustained and 

 finally successful labour. He attained a position of mental dignity 

 in which he could feel neither unduly anxious for the applause of 

 his compeers, nor unduly moved by the reproaches and misrepre- 

 sentations of his enemies (see 'Dedicatio,' p. 164; *Epistola Secunda 



constituents of a mass of 'solid' masonry (see his 'Beziehungen der Luft zu Klei- 

 dung, Wohnung und Boden,' 1872, pp. 41-45. and especially the figures p. 42). What 

 Leeuwenhoek and Malpighi did for the capillaries of the animal body in supplementa- 

 tion of Harvey's work, and in correction of one of his few errors, that v. Petteukofer 

 has done in supplementation of Harvey's suggestion as to Hubuli so small as that they 

 could not easily be discerned' in structures Uke the Pyramids. It is, perhaps, not 

 more than curious to note that Harvey was equally right in suggesting the existence 

 of larger • secret tunnels ' : an account of the discovery and opening of them may be 

 found in Colonel Howard Vyse's 'Operations carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh/ 

 1837, i. pp. 3, 263, 285-28S; ii. pp. 160, 161; and an amusing history of the incon- 

 veniences endured in the interior of the Pyramids previously to the discovery of these 

 'air-channels' is given by Colonel Coutelle in 'Description de I'Egypte, Antiquit^s, 

 M^moires,' ii. p. 46, 1809. 



