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earning his livelihood by holding gentlemen's 

 horses during their visit to the theatre. Hamlet was 

 entered, I believe, in what is now called " Sta- 

 tioners' Hall" A.D. 1602. Who was most likely to 

 have written it ? Bruno was one who opposed the 

 Aristotlelian, which was then all powerful, both in 

 the Church and the world. He accepted the great 

 discovery of Copernicus ; and held that memorable 

 contest at Oxford against the Aristotlelians, of which 

 GK H. Lewis has given such a graphic account in his 

 History of Philosophy from Tholes to Comte. So rigid 

 was Oxford in favour of Aristotle, that her statutes 

 declared that Bachelors and Masters of Arts, who did 

 not faithfully follow Aristotle, were liable to a fine of 

 5s. for every point of divergence. Now it is an 

 interesting fact, that when at Cambridge, and only 

 fourteen years of age, Bacon had written vigorously 

 against the Aristotlelian philosophy, nearly ten years 

 before Bruno arrived in England. 



APPENDIX N, PAGE 182. 



Professor Huxley might have found another 

 lay philosopher 1000 years earlier than the time of 

 Bacon, on whom he might profitably have exercised 

 his wit, on account of his peculiar ideas respecting 

 Cosmogony. Cosmas, surnamed " Indicopleustes," 

 a celebrated merchant of Alexandria in the sixth cen- 

 tury, who subsequently became a monk, though not 

 a priest, after his travels had come to an end, 

 devoted "himself during the remainder of his life to 

 proving what he considered the harmony between 



