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 think them unworthy of answer. They may indulge their spleen for me; few right-minded persons will care to read what they have written, nor will they obtain that greatest and most desirable of all gifts, the wisdom which God, the giver of all good, grants not to the evil.’

Harvey lived in an atmosphere too pure for clouds from the lower world to reach him, or if, remembering his famous conversation with Sir George Ent, to which we owe the fragment of his other great work, we cannot deny that strife vexed, and detraction pained him, he at any rate, in spite of his choleric youth, had learnt well the lesson of which there is no better nor terser version than the Psalmist’s, ‘Fret not thyself in any way to do evil.’

The same calm temper shows itself all through his essay. There is nothing in it for