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 his patients were the losers. What Harvey and every honest man cares for, is not popular applause, but the confidence and esteem of his comrades; and this he deserved and received. It was as Lecturer at this College that he propounded his discoveries; it was here that he found his disciples and his friends; here he was urged to take the Presidential chair; and here his statue was erected, five years before his death, with the inscription, “Viro monument is suis immortali.” It would have been a poor compliment to his elaborate demonstrations, and unworthy of a liberal profession, if so startling a revolution as Harvey proposed had been accepted without inquiry. It was considered, it was discussed, and, without haste hut without timidity, it was at last accepted—the very way in which Darwin’s theory was received and criticised, and adopted by Lyell and by Hooker, Let then no scientific