Page:The Harveian oration - delivered at the Royal College of Physicians, London, June 29th, 1867 (IA b22315263).pdf/9

Rh heretics in science. At last, we have reached a time when happily we can afford to judge with fairness one who fell only into the error of his day. The generosity of Caius ought not to be obscured by the fault which belonged to all his compeers. Nor ought we to forget his loving act in raising that monument in old St. Paul's which once bore the inscription:—

The motto which Caius had inscribed to the honour of Linacre was afterwards adopted by whoever placed the stone over the remains of Caius, which is still to be seen, at the entrance into Caius College Chapel, with the brief addition, "Fui Caius."

I have alluded to those benefactors who preceded Harvey, because they must have been individually in his thoughts whilst he was framing his injunction.

On the subject of endowments generally, we perceive that, however rare they have become in modern times, they were then abun-