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amongst us, to point out^ as a matter for congratulation, in how 

 many directions his discoveries have been extended and added to, 

 and how well replaced had been the many works the loss of which 

 had been so ' crucifying ' to him. 



There was not in Harvey's mind that defect in the way of a 

 deficiency of interest in theological questions which constitutes 

 in the minds of some eminent scientific, and some eminent literary, 

 men such a lamentable void. He has, on the contrary, in 

 several places taken pains to state his views upon this highest 

 of subjects. To one of these passages (from the work ' De Genera- 

 tione,' Exercit. Quinquagesima, p. 385, ed. 1766; p. 370, ed. Dr. 

 Willis), as Mr. E. B. Tylor has pointed out to me, Professor His 

 of Leipzig, a worker whom Harvey would have hailed as a colleague, 

 has referred in one of his always excellent papers, published in the 

 ' Archiv fiir Anthropologic,^ Bd. iv. 1870, p. !^2o, on 'Die Theorien 

 der geschlechtlichen Zeugung.' It is just in the investigation of 

 the problems indicated in these last words that, as has often been 

 remarked, the question of the existence of other than purely 

 material forces presses itself most closely upon the mind ; and 

 hence, perhaps, the repetition by Harvey of his views regarding it, 

 more than once or even twice, in his treatise just referred to 

 (see Exercit. 49, p. 730; Ex. 50, p. 385; Ex. 54, pp. 419, 420). 

 These statements are all to the same purpose. I have chosen one 

 of them — the last one of the three just cited (not the one quoted by 

 Professor His) — to repeat here, because, besides its philosophical 

 and other interest, it has some literary claims upon our attention, 

 it being not quite impossible, considering its line of thought and 

 arrangement of words, that Pope, who borrowed on all sides, and 

 made acknowledgments on none, may have had it before him when 

 he composed his Universal Prayer. It runs thus : — 



'Nempe agnoscimus Deum, Creatorem summum atque omni- 

 potentem, in cunctorum animalium fabrica ubique praesentem esse, 

 et in operibus suis quasi digito monstrari ; Cujus in procreatione 

 pulli instrumenta sint gallus et gallina. Constat quippe in genera- 

 tione pulli ex ovo omnia singulari providentia, sapientia divma, 

 artificioque admirabili et incomprehensibili exstructa ac efformata 

 esse. Nee cuiquam sane haec attributa conveniunt, nisi omni- 

 potenti rerum principio ; quocunque demum nomine id ipsum 

 appellare libuerit : sive mentem divinam cum Aristotele ; sive cum 



