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 Perhaps, however, what most strikes the reader of this Treatise is the learning of the writer. He is familiar with his Aristotle, and quotes from Fabricius and other writers with much greater freedom than in the succinct and almost sententious treatise de motu Cordis et sanguinis. Some would have us believe that here, as in other cases, erudition was a clog upon genius. This question has been often discussed, and it has even been maintained that he is most likely to search out "the secrets of