upon satisfying the Indians therefor.

These privileges gave an impetus to emigration, and assisted, in a great
degree, in permanently establishing the settlement of the country. But
from this era commenced the decay of the profits of the company, as with
all its vigilance it could not restrain the inhabitants from
surreptitiously engaging in the Indian trade, and drawing thence a
profit which would otherwise have gone into the public treasury.

HARVEY DISCOVERS THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD

A.D. 1616

THOMAS H. HUXLEY

Contemporary with Galileo, and ranking but little below him in
influence upon the modern world, was William Harvey. Harvey's
discovery of the circulation of the blood, combined with the
truly scientific methods by which he reached, and afterward
proved, his great result, has placed his name high on the roll
of science. Not only does his work stand at the foundation of
modern anatomy and medicine, but it has given him place in the
ranks of great philosophers as well. Huxley, himself so long
and justly renowned in modern science, rises to enthusiasm in
the following account of his mighty predecessor.

Harvey was born at Folkestone, England, in 1578, and lived till
1657. He was educated as a physician, studying at Padua in
Italy, and was early appointed a lecturer in the London College
of Physicians. In his lectures, somewhere about the year 1616
or a little later, he began to explain his new doctrine to his
students; but it was not until the publication of his book
_Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis_, in 1628,
that the theory spread beyond his immediate circle.

Huxley's account will perhaps give a clearer idea of Harvey's
relation to his predecessors and contemporaries, and of the
value of his services to mankind, than would a far longer
biography of the great physician, physiologist, and anatomist.

Many opinions have been held respecting the exact nature and value of
Harvey's contributions to the elucidation of the fundamental problem of
the physiology of the higher animals; from those which deny him any
merit at all--indeed, roundly charge him with the demerit of
plagiarism--to those which enthrone him in a position of supreme honor
among great discoverers in science. Nor has there been less controversy
as to the method by which Harvey obtained the results whic