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 59 though the labour of gathering hints, or rather warnings, from its many guesses must have been to him. For in many parts of Harvey's treatise, De Motu Cordis, we meet with phrases which seem as if they had been used with a special refer- ence to Warner's views ; and his dissertation has at least this claim upon my grati- tude, that it has made me think that I understand Harvey's meaning the better for having read it. I fancy, in fact, that I re- cognise such phrases in Harvey's words (De Motu, pp. 58, 6i, ed. 1766; p. 56, ed. Willis), 'Absque dolore vel calore velfugd vacui,' and in such words as ' longe plus est quam par- tium nutritioni congruens est,' p. 64; 'avTo^sla, non mentis agitatio,' p. 133. He might have been alluding to almost any page of Warner's MS. in his repudiation (p. 1 1 6, see Epistola Secunda ad Riolanum) of the hypothesis of various sorts of spirits. But there is one of Harvey's many noble and candid, whilst measured and well - balanced utterances, which seems to me to be admirably suited to serve as a text for an exposition which perhaps some future Harveian orator may undertake, of the exact relation which his