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 90 terris; a quo animalia eorumque origines dependent, cujusque nutu sive effato fiunt et generantur omnia/ (De Generatione Ani- malium, Ex. 54, pp. 419, 420, ed. 1766 ; p. 402, ed. Willis.) I have detained you far too long; but, feeling that my praise of Harvey has been all too feeble, I am anxious, in ending, to employ in honour of Harvey certain lines of singular beauty and force which, though composed in commemoration not of him, but of another famous Englishman, may never- theless be applied to him with a singular appropriateness. ' Remember all He spoke among you, and the man who spoke ; Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor paltered with Eternal God for power ; "Who let the turbid streams of rumour flow Thro' either babbling world of high and low ; Whose life was work, whose language rife With rugged maxims hewn from life ; Who never spoke against a foe. Whatever record leap to light, He never shall be shamed.' S 25 -f&